I came back home drenched in sweat.
Cold dread filled my heart, like lead.
The memories recapitulated in my head.
Relief in exhaustion? Sleepless nights instead!
I met Him again today.
With dark eyes He was looking at the new age.
He lurked in every shadow of my city,
Rage and sorrow fighting on His visage.
I looked at my home through His eyes.
Oh, what pain it brought me!
Joy and peace vanishing in the zephyr –
Blood, worry, grime, everywhere I could see.
Limbless powers sleeping on the streets
Speedsters zoom uncaring like stone.
Frail little ones beg at the signals; while
Over-fed children throw tantrums at home.
Shady folks peddle death after dark
Why! They take away My only job!
Cocaine induced sleep drugs them into a land
This pleasurable sin from them – no man can rob
Strongholds of city – all gone to waste.
The undertaker places orders for a hundred wreaths.
There’s danger skulking every lane.
Who knows, how many die anonymous deaths?
What a world it has become, I see.
My child shudders to go out today.
I go to work, but hundred worries stay
And I come back home dreading what is to be.
I keep calling up my people to check
Oh, but there is whole humanity at stake!
I toss and turn in bed, blaming fate
And wake up, wanting to devastate.
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