Long Haul

                                         LONG HAUL


Those clementine wind up the swing

Moss that grow on seats sigh and cling

Once were happy now droop and wait

For joyous voices which could sing


Songs of near past hard to locate

For starved minds an endless bait

Stand on toes look over the fence

Search for anything animate


Eons pass ; though a month intense

The streets were jammed , the smog dense

Now silence echoes on dead wall

We fell and died without defense


The cemetery , now a roll call

Nature reclaims its own windfall

Lets stay awake for the long haul

Lets stay awake for the long haul



                                           © Lalarukh Lasharie