The Dead Souls at Rest

The Dead Souls at Rest, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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away from
spiraling prices
mumbai bandh
match fixing
cricket test
football
Viva La Espana
Paul the Psychic
Octopus
a win time and tide
could not arrest

they left behind
everything they had
to family
friends relatives
some here
some in the west
they went away
willingly from
the chaos of life
the unrest
they gave up
everything
their wealth
their worldly quest
they were fed up
badly hatched
eggs in their nest
nestor took to drugs
brian hit the bottle
joe gambled away
his savings
got married
to a street woman
he died penniless
next to them
he rests
the last cry
of the christian
east indian
ethos their
ancestral
bungalows
their villas
gave way
to ugly towers
you have
rightly guessed

The Church
render to Caesar
what belongs to Caesar
to Christ
what belongs
to Christ
saw the
impending
doom
but sat safely
on the fence
they simply
did not protest
it was fate
no win win contest
the builder nexus
the politicians
gobbled
up the gaothan
which when
the CRZ opens
up they
will
appetizingly
digest

On my trips
to St Peter Cemetery
I often talk
to the sleeping
denizens
what you give
is what you get
only tears on the
soul of the Savior
you cannot forget

This poem
their pain
I poetized
on a dead
mans
repeated
request

dedicated to my best friend
Marquis Pets