News 1. Court summons kin accused of assaulting 92-year-old
News 2. Website to aid senior citizens launched
News 3. Elderly couple found murdered in their flat; bodies found by the maidservant
(I started writing in the month of Feb 2008 this got aborted; I feel compelled to complete this after seeing the above news article)
Faculties waning
Balance toppling
Accounts getting erased
Acting dropping
Addictions fading
Losing the structure
Trying to become history
Quivering and bowing
Depreciating health
As well as the wealth
Decaying slowly
Losing the interest
In life and banks
Trying to hop from Earth to nowhere
Fermented to buzz off
Youth now the spent force
Getting on to golden age
As old is gold
Nothing left to part
Becoming a loan!
Sons and daughters
Along with the consorts
Setting on the process
Evacuation en mass
The better half and me
Now both bitter
To near and near
Far and wide
Rationing the intake
Hitting strong to register
The application to exit,
Nothing left in the vein
To raise even a finger
Looking above-“Almighty? ”
The busiest entity ever unknown!
Let us know a way out
To dissolve into oblivion!
Completed on 12.04.2008
rajagopal haran
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/197-holocaust-in-my-backyard/
