Similar, dissimilar stories
Of yesterdays, today’s
All big cities tell tales.
Of highs and low, ebb or tide
Time passages through
Peoples mind.
Big cities past, present share
Heroes, valour, stories,
Lives nightmare.
Those woes, pain that ooze
Laughter and smile
Sorrows camouflaged hide.
Earthquakes that Pompeii toll
Bombs in Dresden innocents kill
Twin towers of New York fall.
Forever lost incomplete fills.
Borne is remorse. Silence stills.
Baghdad heart chimes chestnut tears.
Moscow scene seen tragedies
Sars plagues Hong Kong Beijing.
Loom low overall grey miseries.
Direct action day, Noakhali, Calcutta killings
Of 1947 late monsoons, blood stream streets.
Frail Mahatma weeps and weeps.
It is all ours, only our dears.
Daily struggles, for existence.
Realm, love melody, hate raucous.
Amritsar Spring 1919, fall, Dyer's fire on 20,000,
Peace protesters, of Rowlett Act, in Jallianwala Baug
April Baisakhi turned into a graveyard to mourn.
Those Santiago chills of dictators will.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki miserable air raids drill.
Holocaust Phnom Penh Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Determination calls of tragedies to stall.
Steal not peace we have enough natural calamities.
Man, made sorrows are those easily avoidable.
Image a matter of choice projectile, civil.