Blurred Existence
Is It Christmas?

Is it Christmas?
Amidst the busy streets of the city
Children knocking on every car
Peeping at the heavily tinted windows
The motorists ignore
Along the walkway the old man sits
Waiting for the passersby
The open palm tirelessly drapes in the air
Some people are preparing their lists
Busy shopping for gifts
Is it Christmas?
In the province, people are busy too
Collecting their belongings
The livelihood and properties ruined by the storm
Rebuilding their scattered lives
In a shanty, a sick mother lies
Anticipating for her child to come home
No food or medicine on her side
Inside some bars, people are enjoying
There are parties everywhere
Is it Christmas?
Love and Heartache
In the quiet of the night, where shadows softly
blend,
I trace the echoes of a love that won’t amend.
Your laughter’s gentle trace still dances in my
mind,
A melody of moments we were destined to unwind.
In every sunrise I find the ghost of your embrace,
In every fleeting twilight, I still seek your face.
Yet time, the cruel thief, has stolen what we knew,
Leaving me with memories, and dreams that we once grew.
Your absence is a silence that speaks in aching
tones,
A void where once our hearts beat in harmonious
zones.
Each heartbeat is a whisper of the love we used to
share,
Now fading into shadows, lost within despair.
The promises we made, now fragments of the past,
The tender words we spoke, just echoes that can’t
last.
I wander through the remnants of a love that used to
be,
Holding on to fragments of what we once set free.
Oh, how the night winds carry the weight of dreams
undone,
A heart that’s torn and tattered, in the wake of setting
sun.
Yet in this sea of sorrow, where heartache meets the
dawn,
I cherish every heartbeat of a love that’s now withdrawn.
For though the pain is endless and the tears may never
cease,
The love we shared was worth the cost, a bittersweet release.
So here’s to love and heartache, to the joy and to the
strife,
For in their tangled dance, we find the echoes of our
life.
Note: This is an AI composed poem

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