Of Payment & Procrastination Poem by Ramesh Iyengar

Of payment & procrastination

Years of waiting in patience.
I hold myself in silence.
Scores of visits here I made.
In each visit does hope fade.
The unpaid sum of Antonio made him ill.
I’m no Shylock, a commoner still.
Days pass, heart does loosen.
Lawyer, do you now awake?
Do pay me earlier,
as festivities are so near.


P. S.: My friend Mr. S. Santhanam who is a leading criminal lawyer of my town owes me Indian Rupees 4300/-. I reminded him on several occasions to repay his debt. However, he didn’t budge an inch. Hence, I wrote this short verse. I intended to pen a sonnet, yet it just ran 4 lines short of it. Hope he will repay it soon after reading this ‘ vers libre ’.