The bed of pavement

An evening in a metropolitan city
sky-scrapers garlanded by lights;
pomp and show everywhere.
People are busy, chasing their dreams
ready to buy happiness, through their riches.
Neon-lights keep blinking like the fireflies;
the night barely sleeps.
From the ocean offlashing lights emerge
three pairs of lifeless eyes
belonging to silhouettes
clad in rags, lying on the pavement , under the boundless skies.

Frail faces with expressionless eyes
looked gloomier in darkness;
bigger pairs of eyes looked morose
while the smallest appeared to be
almost lifeless;
only the slightest movement
in those little limbs
made it possible to infer
“It actually was a toddler”
Vivid skies were conspicuously visible
yet, neither was El-Dorado in dreams
Nor was there a future
in those tired sets of eyes
even when they were wide open

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