What use is an audit
When what should have been prevented
Already happens
How would auditing the conditions
Help the twenty-two unfortunate souls
Already lost to your callousness
Why are you so reactive
When you need to be proactive
What do you tell the families
Who’s loved ones left for the day
But never to return
Can all the money in the world
Buy back the lives lost
Heal does deep scars
How do you console a 9 month old babe
Who cries out for it’s mother
How do you console a father
Who happened to listen to his daughter
And walk a bit ahead of her
Only to turn around and not find her there
So many stories to weep
Of loss and sadness
Why oh why then
Didn’t your heed to the cries
That warned you before
This was not a calling wolf
But a ticking bomb waiting to burst
And with it did it consumed lives
Does renaming a station
Is more important than human life
What do you get by it
A vote bank to fall on?
What use is a bullet train
When a tragedy is
A bullet to the heart
What use is an AC train
When the everyday commute
Feels like being packed up like sardines
A dangerous stunt
That needs to be completed
What use of looking to bring a future
When the present isn’t perfect
When there’s lack of proper infrastructure
When there has been a call
For an urgent need to overhaul
Why did it fall on deaf ears?
Why the stepchild treatment?
We help pay a major of chunk of taxes
Giving to you what is due to you
And get nothing in return
Only to see your pet cities and states
Benefit from what should have been ours
We don’t need your tweets
or your insincere condolences
Till you feel the pain we feel,
The anguish of loosing someone dear
The fear and the risk we take
On our daily commute
Your words are meaningless and hollow
So don’t tell us your saddened
Or tell us a strict enquiry
will be conducted
And those responsible
will be taken to task
When you could have prevented
And choose to do nothing
Making it worse
For heaven sake
Do what is right
Before it is too late
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