Pain

“With hindsight

pain framed my mind”

Failure to redress genuine grievances

made her address our citizens…

You came across it many times,

who could foretell that it rhymes

The atrocities she witnessed have affected

wisdom, the orphan society has neglected

You smash everything to pieces

just to proof me wrong, and my thesis

You formed the base of your premise

by raising your voice in bitterness

Pain is the weight that keeps

in motion, while it suddenly leaps

Into the dark, unpredictable

is what you have become, almost tangible

It hit me all of a sudden, unexpected

there go the memories you treasured

Impressions imprisoned into a momentum

kept us going through the heat of the noon

The picture lasted to the following morning

motivated to travel aimlessly, we kept roaming

Young and naïve; that is what we used to be

the principles of your parents never ceased

Pain is the weight, burdened with a loss

volumes thrown away lightly, the coin that we used to toss

Public roads became second home

holding on your way, you tried to make it your own

A relation to life lacking commitment

would painful stories ever comprehend

If I wrote those words in chalk

powdery white is the trace of our daily walk

The only thing that played to your side at dawn

was the family, preventing burdens to grind on

Hold on, find your freedom from disturbance

interruptions of peace come to an end

Failure to redress genuine grievances

made her address our citizens…

With hindsight

pain framed your mind.

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