Making of a poem

The bard made to wait

on the sides

As the 'Comedy of errors' gets

sold by the 'Merchant of Venice'

'The importance of being earnest'

even as you're wild beyond taming

'The tale of two cities'

needs go past the guillotine

of evanescent attention

Before I hear someone

peeking upon the page

With an anxious eye

as she surveys

the prairie of blankness

A stanza or two later

as the verses come to belong

between the rhymes

And just as the title

is falling in place

The meaning is making away

with a makeshift twist

May not be always

as easy to enjoy

As watching a few men

chasing a ball to the net

And the world going

crazy for it

Literature has a charm

uncanny

And an ability to take you

beyond the inanities

of the days spent

in trying to be

someone you ain't