I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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Poems in English 

• women picking edible plants by Raj Arumugan by Poetry In English
• what I want to know by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• what a poet must do by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• was it you, mooon? by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• walking with a staff by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• The village girl models for the artist, 1904 by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• The Discovery of the Kama Sutra by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• Taking yourself too seriously by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• Sohni and her love Mahinwal by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• sadness from the night by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• run home, run home butterfly by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• Rip van Winkle’s dream by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• Poet Herodia of ancient Pincaeia by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• pissed-off cow by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• on the edge of the seat by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• on our conditioning by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• Old Man Poet by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• oh no – not another love poem! by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English
• of spiritual matters by Raj Arumugam by Poetry In English

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