Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams
Their Hearts are broken not because they lost an opportunity to build a new country;
Their hopes were dashed not because they did not prepare well to build a new country.
Their hearts were broken and their hopes dashed because a fiendish apparition garbed in a mortal robe, robbed them of the opportunity to rebuild the broken walls, and erect the sagged pillars of their country.
I can feel the feeling they felt
Their pains spread all over
their bodies, and shown glaringly
in their eyes; people traumatized
into the hollow of their hopelessness
by an archaic philosophical ideology
on religious premise
I can see the pain in their eyes
as they groped about searching for
any means of sustenance, as nothing
they’ve had, makes any meaningful
value to their life, for whatever they’ve
had, has become dung meant for the waste bin
Like herds of bleating sheep
led into the slaughtering house,
they goaded my people, meandering
in an endless maze, searching for an
acceptable exit to the ray of a new dawn;
Yet, all they could see was a dawn that was clouded in a
darker nothingness
But in that darkened space of suffocating gloom
a ray of glimmering Hope appeared;
a hope arrowed to the brighter dawn
they’ve hoped and dreamt about,
it filed them with a new vigor of liveliness
They all, in one accord, throng toward
that glimmering hope with all enthusiasm
Alas, they thought, they were on the brink of an
historic victory over the powers and will of
evil and darkness that has engulfed them this while
But in a vengeful hatred and disdain
for what the people cared about, or the pains
they’ve had, and in utter disregard for norms,
or feeling of their hopelessness, in the circumstance,
some marauding beings clothed in an entitlement
mentality unleashed an atmosphere of mayhem
upon the land, dashing the hope of the people
And so, in one fell swoop, the impunity of a class has
shattered the people's dreams, hopes, and expectations
of a new dawn, and plunging my beloved country
into the abyss of dread, and casting a shadow
of ‘pariahness’ in this fast-evolving global community
The world couldn’t fathom that this could happen
to this great nation endowed with all the
glamor and beautiful resources in any country
could hope for, in this century, they couldn’t
understand why we are so great, yet very small
and backward
For if you could look at the pains in the eyes of my people,
If you could feel the feelings my people felt;
how they’ve been batte