Friday, 7 October 2022

Raging over the Paradise Lost: Colombo, March 2022

 



Great are the times,
when survival is a strategy 
only a few seem to have mastered in 
with flying colours through decades of hard practice.

Clenched fists and pleading hands 
in every street corner 
repaying with life, youth, blood and sweat 
for the 'gentle sins' that history keeps repeating,
forgotten, forgiven by masses 
once in every five years 
adding up to the generations of 'gentle sinners'
to rule the land abide by jungle law, 
while some rage over the paradise lost
laboring out there in sold out fields.

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