Life's String

S K Iyer

Fighting death, falling in the graves,
leaving behind a legacy to follow suit,
life strides its contrived path and craves
for the eternal flame to live as a mute
witness through generations, looking for
gaps of momentary pleasures to forget
the morbid thoughts, and waiting for
another moment of glistening delight.
On the same wick the eternal flame lives,
through generations of perpetual desires.
If it is not for the selfishness that thrives,
why do we ignore the suffering of truth?
Are we not the same beads of the same string
of life of those struggling for a living?
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