( 76) Cockroaches

(76) Cockroaches
Walls too have ears, they say,
who would this gainsay?
The wooden plank with a welcome board,
nailed to the demented wall,
gives shelter to the mushroom growth of cockroaches,
I could hear the ring of cockroaches,
I could recall the echo of the insects
on the ears or the holes,
The tiny lizard gives uncouth company to them,
unwelcome guest or enemy,
Plays hide and seek to swallow,
may be to unseat the strongly seated,
do they breed in darkness or cavities?
just as sins and stigmas in uncivilised minds
unsparing of God’s and Godhead!
the cockroaches run, run to their walled abodes,
or wooden wardrobes to woo perhaps their woebegone.