One Risky Drive
Hey car!
You fall once and leap twice
We gotta go far
So don't stop and be nice
Don't wanna be lost here
With chances like the roll of the dice
Go along; think of mommy car, daddy car
You have to reach home for everyone near and dear
You have to be home for your own girlie car
Do you see all that smoking coal tar
Think that we are in war
Like a burning plane lost to radar
But you know that you must always win
Though winning may seem bizarre
This is not the end, you need not think of the dustbin
That's full upto the brim, with sin and more sin
You rather think clear in this alcohol-driven din
The smell intoxicates you, but you never tasted wine, never tasted gin
Yeah, you are thinking of your kith and kin; what you have been through thick and thin
Hey car!
You fall once and leap twice
I am losing count, I am feeling awful inside
We still gotta go lot far; don't dare stop and be nice
The night excites fears; ditch full dangers outside
The moon smiles in the dark sky; she smiles at me and you
She likes that you have lost two gears and I am turning blue
Those on the backseat are already sleeping; spare Adi on the front seat is not dozing
Holding onto his seat, gloomily glued, tense and troubled; is vomiting overdue?
Let mourners be damned, you can't be tamed and I am brain-jammed
I hear a clank; something's broken again; hope it's not the oil tank
You are running without gears, running with split tyres, would you run without oil?
I'll thank you infinite times if you reach home and end this toil
The Devil's sending troubles in a platter, and hitting on my head like a hammer
Alarm bells are ringing within; I can hear your engine noise stammer
Curse my blunders but stop the clangour even though you have hurt your fenders
These are small hours of the day I should've slumbered away but I'm lost here in dismay
You are a small call with small powers and small tyres to challenge this hellish highway
I'll always remember this day the whole of my life; the strife and all of today
Hey car!...
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Submitted on August 25, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
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Words | 387 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 39 |
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