ECHOES

Echoes are the shadows of the past
Like ghost of lives in silent streets
In events and episodes of history
Which continue long after ending

Echoes are the wars we have fought
Like thousand lives in twin towers
Weeping in Afghanistan and Iraq
Terror begets terror in anti terrorism

Echoes of earthquakes and tsunamis
Washed in rising tons of sea water
Into the opened womb of the earth
Drowned lives in tolls of thousands

Echoes need not always be tragic
Silent noble works echo from antiquity
By the custodians of the sacred light
Who interceded for all our wrongs

Echoes are the refreshing faces
Of human existence, through time
For a better future, we wish and pray
Till we all abide with the eternal now