30 November, 2020

Stopping by the Hills on a Cold Evening

Continued from Peace


Whose hills these are I think I know

He watches atop the highest though

He won’t mind me stopping here

To watch his peaks laden with snow

 

My simple cabbie must think it queer

To stop without a dhaba near

Between the valley the flowing river

The coldest evening of the year

 

He gives the car’s horn a press

To ask if there is some gaffe

The only other sound that sweeps

Of flowing water and rustling leaves

 

The hills are massive, white and steep

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep