News 1. Court summons kin accused of assaulting 92-year-old <br />News 2. Website to aid senior citizens launched <br />News 3. Elderly couple found murdered in their flat; bodies found by the maidservant <br /> <br />(I started writing in the month of Feb 2008 this got aborted; I feel compelled to complete this after seeing the above news article) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Faculties waning <br />Balance toppling <br />Accounts getting erased <br />Acting dropping <br />Addictions fading <br />Losing the structure <br />Trying to become history <br />Quivering and bowing <br />Depreciating health <br />As well as the wealth <br />Decaying slowly <br />Losing the interest <br />In life and banks <br />Trying to hop from Earth to nowhere <br />Fermented to buzz off <br />Youth now the spent force <br />Getting on to golden age <br />As old is gold <br />Nothing left to part <br />Becoming a loan! <br />Sons and daughters <br />Along with the consorts <br />Setting on the process <br />Evacuation en mass <br />The better half and me <br />Now both bitter <br />To near and near <br />Far and wide <br />Rationing the intake <br />Hitting strong to register <br />The application to exit, <br />Nothing left in the vein <br />To raise even a finger <br />Looking above-“Almighty? ” <br />The busiest entity ever unknown! <br />Let us know a way out <br />To dissolve into oblivion! <br /> <br />Completed on 12.04.2008<br /><br />rajagopal haran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/197-holocaust-in-my-backyard/
