Threads of thoughts

15^th August

Independence day

Smiling urchins flock at the signal

to sell flags to car drivers

A writer writes of rose

smelling as sweet

Unforgiving history

Commemorates torture

Celebrates freedom

Labour

Old wrinkled man

pulling the thhela*

carrying the burden

*Wheelbarrow - a small cart with four wheels, two at the front and two supporting at the rear, used typically for carrying loads in building work or gardening.

Poverty

Poverty exists

To feed the rich

By design, for years

Despite words and tears

Urchins

Children starve

In unicef zones

Mystery

Ignorance is a safe zone

So peace is a mystery