Nobody

Today he wishes to be a nobody

The stars on his shoulders mean nothing to him now

The achievements on the wall feel like dust of yesterday’s past

He doesn’t want to feel this pain no more

Carrying the weight of the invisible burden

That washes over him

Every now and than he just wants to curl up in a corner

Just listen to the silence sinking into his skin

Lost his wife to cancer

His son left him to expiry date and moved on with his life

Seeing his friends collapse to earth one after the other

Little did his memory fade with time

Second childhood in progress

loosing his teeth

learning to walk with change

How he loved playing cricket with his grandchild

Running like a sole full of life

working that toothless smile

Well life is a full circle

A general that led the military force is now a puppet in the hands of time

House arrest that burnt the daylight

The old man awaits for his grandson

At the grave

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I know this a sad ending as I wanted to bring a little light into a small issue. We are living in a critical times like these. Where the senior citizens are worst effected emotionally. The fear of getting effected by this corona virus kills the light of day out of them and let alone going for a simple stroll down the street.

They are at a place where there are emotionally and physically weak. It’s our moral duty for the sake of humanity that is left from this crule world to check on our parents, grandparents or that old granny that lives on her own. Check on them when distance is matter of fact than we are only a call away.

©G.V Raghavasree

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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