Yesteryears

Sometimes when I sink in my thoughts I see the enchanting face of gone by years In the wide open window of my heart With my eyes blurred with gushing tears When I take out my old albums to dust And aimlessly turn over its pages My mind is swept with a wave’s thrust Drifting to the time of saints and sages The time of serenity, peace and love The time that is frozen in my album Like glittering gems in a treasure trough Like a fragrant rose’s ravishing blossom Men and women with hearts of gold Love, loyalty and purity of soul Times when fidelities weren’t bought and sold Amity and friendship were cherished goal The glorious past now nowhere in sight Greed and lust in forefront of mind Licentiousness and lewdness give no respite Kindness and sympathy nowhere to find The earth plagued with demons of ugliness Leaches and vultures, oppressors and tyrants Sucking the blood and devouring with greediness The flesh of oppressed, the infirm and infants It is time for tyranny’s elimination The call of vision is for me and you Be a sword to slaughter the demon Life to be spared of affliction and woe February 20, 2011