पागल (THE MAD)

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बल्कि

इसी मुहल्ले का नागरिक है

वह सदा अपने आप में

खोया रहता है

दुनिया की गति

देखा करता है

कभी लोगों को घूरता है

तो

कभी मुस्कराता है

लेकिन

कुछ बोलता नहीं

मुझे तो

वह मन का राजा लगता है

मगर अफ़सोस

कि

लोग उसे पागल कहते हैं

गिरिजेश’’गिरि’’

THE MAD

Through this poem the poet wants to describe a man who is beyond the social human. He says that there is a man sitting at the gate having long beard with feeble physic not a stranger but a citizen of this street who is always lost in himself having eyes on the movement of the world, some times he glared at the people and some times he smiles but becomes speechless. I think that he is king in himself but I can say it ruefully that people called him mad. Is he......???????

                                            girijesh''giri''