--- title: Waiting on the highway date: 2008-02-14T10:47:43Z modified: 2008-02-14T10:47:43Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/waiting-on-the-highway/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 166 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-02-14T10:47:43Z tags: - Life Poems --- Unaware to the outside world in the park bench right outside the highway i lay motionless shivering in the [midnight](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/angel-from-the-midnight-sky.md) cold with nothing else to keep me company and no one aware of my being my mind wanders to the night before in the middle of the night walking across the road i saw him draped in a black attire with a matching black umbrella shielding him from the cold cold [rain](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-rose-in-the-rain.md) he was [waiting](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/waiting.md) waiting for me to come to him with no one to call as my own and no one to call as my friend i was walking away from life and away from painfully slow lonely life (into this land they call "purgatory") in this park bench where i am waitin for this life to slowly seep away so i can travel in my choice of cars waiting on the highway…