Image credits: Google images (montagueproject.com)
To me they run
When they feel need
And when they’re done
I’m but a weed
They drag me in
Through stores and aisles
They gaff and grin
While I count miles
In me they stuff
All they can find
They yank me rough
But I don’t mind
I’m left in pain
Alone I rot
In snow or rain
Or when it’s hot
They could park me
On green sidewalks
Instead they flee
As I skirt shocks
Cars glare and mock
Swear at my nerve
I pray they’d stop
Rather, they swerve
What did I do
To hurt their pride
For them to shoo
And grunt and chide ?
I wish they’d care
Be nice to me
With a smile to spare
On their buying spree
Now here I stand
On this road I dwell
For another hand
To push me to hell
How I write, is mine...How you read, is yours 
ouch, very painful…
Ofcourse! Irritating are the shoppers that fail to replace the carts in the appropriate return areas, and instead leave them on roads or just somewhere !
Come to BLR and you’ll know what pain is. Even the big malls (can’t compare them to the ones in US) but mostly used by people who at some point stayed in the US of A. Once you are done shopping and return to your car you’ll be surprised to see your car surrounded by carts. Only way to reach your car would be to jump over them
I think my car has a cart-made dent as well! Ofcourse, its still a mystery 😦
I suspect more irritating are the people who treat others as though they were a shopping cart…like teenagers and their parents, friends and lovers, etc….oh just another twist on what you wrote…sorry…I just have to do that kind of thing every now and then…enjoyed your original subject.
No worries… such is the nature of the mind… to take off from the current stream, and begin on another branch 🙂
But yea, I agree with you the human shopping cart bit! Extremely annoying! Thankfully, they don’t physically drag each other around the aisles!
Interesting everyday things brought into the front … I liked reading it..
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Thank you Shashi… it’s those everyday things that can sometimes make us think really hard about the bigger picture… don’t you think so?
Glad you enjoyed the read, my friend…
Have a great week ahead!
Maybe the stores ought to put up signs!
😀
ecstasies
Or maybe we just ought to read better 😉
Take care, girl… I hope the carts don’t come in your way 🙂
Have a lovely weekend..
The shopping cart picture just reminds me of this old, decaying shopping cart on campus that’s been lying by the riverside for as long as I’ve been here. Why no one moves it, I have no idea…
But I digress. What I meant to say was: Those jerks! You truly make a person feel for those poor shopping carts. Alas, I suppose I shall continue pushing them like the jerk I am 😛
hahahaha.. that wasn’t a digression at all, Chris.. 🙂 We have a tendency to move shopping carts only IN stores.. as soon as we are out of them, we forget about the existence of those poor carts 🙂 Jerks as we all are!! 😉
Take care, my friend…
Hope all’s well with you.. I’ll visit you very soon, I swear!
The personification of the shopping cart; how do you ever start? Coming up with this idea so unique, it’s realization ever so sweet, funny, clever and cute. I’d like to write something like this too but apparently I don’t have enough heart. Well done. Thanks, Gay @beachanny
Aww.. thanks fro the sweet appreciation, Gay.. I am delighted to see you liked this poem so much!
And I am very sure you get such ideas too.. 🙂 We are poets… we get ideas! heheheh
Take care, my dear friend… and yes, you can expect a few visits from me very soon! 😀
I love this! Poor little grocery cart. We abuse them so. It’s really generous to use their retirement to provide “homes” for those who have no other. Nice, Kavita!
Thanks, Patti.. sometimes, we just forget to appreciate those little everyday events/objects.. we just take them fro granted..
So, I suppose my little observation was a way of appreciating a poor little grocery cart… glad you liked the poem, Patti… and thank you for your kind words and insight…
I hope to visit you very soon, my dear friend…
Take care
(hugs)
ah i think charles hit on something important there…
sad to see the ones discarded in ditches…shopping carts…people…
nice job taking something unusual and breathing poetry into it.
nice one shot!
Thanks Brian.. I guess sometimes, we get inspired by the simplest and the most “unnoticed” of things around us..
I am glad you liked this poem, my friend.. thanks again for your kind and encouraging words… the same goes for Charles too 🙂
Will be visiting you very soon, B..
Quirky, people-revealing work. Another unique work from you. 🙂
hehehe.. I liked the way you put it, Steve.. thank you!! Glad you liked it so much… thanks for the kind and unusual sounding compliment! LOVED IT!!!
Take care, my friend… 🙂
Ooh I really feel for that poor shopping trolley. Quite moving and the pic goes well too. :O)
heheh.. glad you liked the poem, Madeleine… I really appreciate your kind comments here..
See you very soon at your blog 🙂
Take care, my friend..