Thursday, March 21, 2013

A Road Under Attack Forever!


Sorry for the inconvenience,
Once again this road is being dug-up,
For some pipe line spruce-up,
Hopefully for your convenience!
Please don’t ask us when the road will be re-laid,
We assure you; it will not take a decade.


The intense activity you see in the above picture is on the road in front of our house. This road is dug-up every few months for laying some new cables, pipes, or for repairs of this underground equipment and after many months a shabby and substandard asphalt road is laid which lasts for a few days. This cycle of digging and re-laying the road seems endless and this led me to pen the above verse and post on facebook: 

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