Thursday, April 29, 2021

Cycle of Motions

 Dat-29 NAPOWRIMO-2021

Prompt: Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene.


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Then....

It sees life


Brimming with energy


Dancing on a rainbow


The laughter of small children


Running on the roads


With a cricket bat and ball


Another one  pushing  a cycle tyre


His dream vehicle with a stick


A few ladies enjoying the evenings


Gossiping, sharing jokes 


With their sisters- in-arm


The carefree lovers, holding hands,


Throwing cautions to the winds


An old lady holding the finger


Of her favourite grandchild


Walking with laughter in her eyes


The cyclists, motorists


Going to their destination


With a broad smile  


To meet their loved ones


Just a year back ago


A panorama of happy faces


Displayed from the kitchen 


There was so much noise


Smells and fragrances


Breathing on those roads...




Now...

It mourns


Searching for a lifeline


In the silent echoes


The only pedestrians it sees


Are the four legged


Starving and barking


Fighting over a piece of bone


There is that lone cow


Munching on plastics and paper towels


The voiceless too miss their human friends.


The emptiness in the streets


Echoes desperate loneliness. 



But...

There is  hope


In the azurine skies, tempting,


With  sensuous evenings and better future


Hope is a strange thing


It becomes a prison for a person.



Participating in : https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-7/












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