Song of Sadness

Lost in the gust of rustling wind,

like a beaten skweing stray kite.

I meander on the lonley dark road,

in the clouded rays of lone night

No merciful light beacon my way,

and there’s none to help in dismay.

Abandoning kith, kin and dear wife,

I loaf in the darkest night of my life.

I sang, I danced and tippled wine,

with my family some days before,

I relished the beautiful time of my life,

I was their flower and they my cynosure.

Under the velvet sky we laughed,

and spent our seasons in the sun.

We laughed, we talked and threw pranks,

we made love and rolled with fun.

Sands of time then sank with a wail,

all in a spur, destiny staggered its sail.

mourning waves lapped bodies bled in red,

where my loved ones lied cold and dead.

Those happy flames are now doused,

And I meander lonely on the roads bend.

Heartless and gloomy to my hapless house,

burning candles at both my end.