POSTBOX

POSTBOX

 

Scintillating memories evoke,

The red box at the corner road,

Visiting the place for childhood often,

Drop post cards envelop, remember,

Visible easily at every street corner,

Invaluable service for generation,

In remote villages, it was only a help,

Faithful service was inconceivable,

Only medium to communicate far,

An age absent rural telephones,

Postcard our milestone to inform,

Exchanging information needed,

Cities were growing with time,

Rural people migrating for work,

Avenues of life postcard duly linked,

Money orders, the way to send money,

Texts under money order with cash,

Family in villages, men in cities,

Children going to distant colleges,

Postbox was regularly attended to,

Postman collects letters in time,

Deposited at a post office in slots,

Post bags were transported in a van,

Far-flung areas sent by train,

Mail through flight for urgent one,

Telegram is possible in the post office,

Looked at a postbox near home,

Stream of thought passed linking,

Modern life is innovative adoptive,

The new method of letter travels,

Courier then email got popular,

Searches none postbox recently,

Many things are required in our life,

Vanishing, phased out gradually,

HMT watch fountain pen missing,

Lantern pillars at street corners miss,

Postbox lingers, fighting for life,

Our generation still love post office,

Need postbox, drop the parcel in packets,

Courier killer service parallel job,

Private efficiency defeats center,

 The fax was convenient for people,

Sending letter pads by digital copy,

On telephone lines transmitted,

Reprints a fax machine at the other end,

Telephone and fax transformed,

Digital age quick delivery feature,

Fewer people search postbox, thus,

Poor people require its service,

In remote villages, life needs it,

Village post offices for population,

Easy for children to drop mail,

Senior people prefer to visit,

Drop the letter and forget,

Trust for postal service nostalgic,

Old habits, dying hard,

Remember places to find the red box,

Symbol of yesteryears for mail,

Timeless, loved as a shining glory.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

( HMT, Hindustan Machine Tools

a corporation of the Central Government

Manufacturing watch closed)