Verification of cards at every public place
shops, restaurants, ATM machines, kiosks, airports
the list endless, humans in a race to amass them
proof of existence collapsed into obese wallets
with multiplied card slots
currency notes pushed to pillion rider's seat.
Playing cards or greeting cards filled childhood
birthday cards, new year cards filed as nostalgia somewhere,
playing cards dog ears exchange hands during summer or winter breaks
UNO cards of my daughter, a shared playful time of ours, even now
on her occasional office holidays
Credit card, debit card, health care, driver's licence,
insurance card, national identification card, loyalty cards
names unheard of then, now household names
some laminated, some electronic
each updated version an upgraded verification.
Frantic at the loss or theft of a credit or debit card
cards define our very existence
These small rectangles rule our lives,
who are we without them?
Lost travellers in this modern journey of life.
The traveller reaches the final destination
a dug-out rectangle on the ground awaits him
the traveller unaware of this only rectangle
that rests him or her at the end
sometimes cloaked in a coffin
sometimes just laid on the ground
sometimes burnt on a pyre
shape unaltered
other preserved rectangles lose their purpose.
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