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Dreary Daze

Night market stalls
So much to see;
Feel happy daze


Curious eyes feast
Seek a fond buy;
Pretty things shout


Street food vendor
Pleasant fare delights;
Long queue waiting


Crowded street
Hawker offerings;
Brisk buy and sell


Waylaid by stuff
Hordes descend here;
Night bazaar tempts


Just for a while
Try buying happiness;
Walk the bazaar route


Street side beggar
Ragged marionette;
Selling tissue packs


Feeble old lady begs:
"Give me two dollars please..."
My wallet agrees


Caught in the act,
I sigh with heartache;
Old man collects discards


By this wayside
Beggar sleeps dreaming;
Sleeping in a warm bed


Chinatown detour
Sign of the times;
Lonely old folks gather


Faces from the past
Lingering here now;
Beyond expiry date


Sad and dreary
These haunting images;
Intrude upon sensibilities


My heart bleeds
Distressed by such sights;
Cruel squalor loiters


Time has excavated
Skeletons in the closet;
Revisiting old haunts


Now and then
Becomes by and by;
Broken pieces litter


Poverty speaks
In ugly tones;
Shady undertakings


To die is easy
Living is so hard;
Pain, suffering, disease


Oh my soul,
Let us go, you and I;
See better sights


Leon Enriquez
14 July 2014
Singapore

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 12/22/2023 12:57:00 AM
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Leon Enriquez
Date: 12/31/2023 3:44:00 AM
Dear Shibili: Glad you like this poem. Thank you. Leon

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