Innocence Lost!

Rotten smell of decomposing wine
Pinching crystals of broken glass
Blood drops - from red to magenta
A corpse lying - denim clad, footwear adidas
All these strewn over a dark alley,road unknown
Such unsightly cases duly unreported,city known
The modern man sees no-one
Nothing is his own.


Another day in a shabby shack
Snugly sleeping small little wonders
Man's own scion but a picture of innocence
Still detached,semi-earthly,long way to senecence
A sudden movement,the swarm gathers
Sleeping beauties in ignorant bliss
Salvo of abuses and the fire duly rises
Semi-earthly to heavenly,human's return to ashes
Man kills himself again
Blind faith gets the better of him.


Sectarian violence,communal clash
A bribery scandal,terrorist attack
Drunken driving,student brawl
Culture shock,no end at all
Women dishonoured, Men disfigured
and children rendered amorphous
Daily newspapers like xeroxed clones
Sardonic remarks splashed all over it's tones
Fathom the depth we've reached
Benevolence seems a word out of date.
The modern man lives for himself
Matters other than own,he's afraid to dwelve.


If all this seems a forgotten pledge
Jaded face of a God that failed
Life's not just about living on the edge
Wait awhile,before you fear to tread
Somewhere there, a sun may rise
Spreading it's rays - far,fresh and nice
Only if we were that much wise
To see the truth that still lies in our eyes.


Some may say it's just a satire
Others - no better than an elegy
Take a look and you will see
It's but a rendition of our times,only!