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/