Neglected Elders

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Not even a letter
Echo from the children
Grey with worry parents
Live without support or
Ease, abandoned by all
Comfort they had sacrificed
To provide and give
Everything their kids required
Desperately they now survive

Eagerly awaiting better times
Languishing sadly in despondent
Domains, weak and ailing
Envisioning the good days
Reasoning what went wrong
Sleeping in painful solitude


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 12

Inhumanity

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Innumerous calamities strike hard
Natural and unnatural ones
Hundreds of lives perish
Under cruel human nature
Money counts more than
An innocent child surviving
Nefarious activites victimize women
Infants burned to death
Turning a blind eye
Yesterday ignored, laughed away


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 9

Fate of a Martyr

Picture by: Daniel Steger

The wind floated over the flower-bed,

Till it soothed the soul of the dead,

With flowers the grave was sprinkled,

But with thorns the memory was wrinkled.

The night one thought looked haunted,

For the beauty of nature was looted,

The mournings were done for the warrior,

By the people who seemed kindler.

He who had no narcissism,

Had laid down his life for his nation,

But now there were none to remember his deeds,

Except the ever loving breeze.

For everyone continued to be merry and gay,

They enjoyed his sacrificed fruits that day,

No feelings they had for one so patriotic,

Instead for money they were more frantic.

The homages for the martyr decreased,

People were taken overy by greed,

From this they could not be freed,

For they didn't change their behaviour,

Alas! this turned out to be more deadlier.