A Vision

In midst of Natures bounty I espied Aside a stream, a gilded gleaming cage. Its tenant was a lifeless bird inside. Engrossed in thought in view of deaths image I deemed its death from thirst beside water. Within the cage were dual empty basins The one for food, and of course, the other. It’s like a wealthy man who’s locked within His iron safe, amid his heaps of gold And perishing within this house of ease Of hunger pangs and thirst as time unfolds. Then suddenly a strangest vision seized My weary eyes, the cage became the bones Of Man, the bird, his prisoned heart of stone.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Mehta Avatar
March 24, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Congratulations on your poem being featured this week, Lovely write, albert
Ahearn Avatar
March 24, 2014 at 10:30 AM
Thank you Doctor for your kind comment.
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