DESPERATE EYES


I saw a hope in her eyes
When she looked at me from a distance
She slowly moved towards me
Dragging all that she had with her

 I could see her tired and worn out
Bent with the curses she bore
Her torn and dirty clothes
Were wrapped around her dry skin

In the burning hot sun
With no more strength to speak
She stood in silence
Looking in to my eyes
 
I saw her miserable wounds
When she raised her hands to beg
With her desperate hungry looking eyes
 She was looking through the windshield of my car

 After I got my fuel tank filled
 I slowly drove away 
Leaving a poor old hungry soul
To suffer on the dusty polluted roads

I did see her walk away in despair
Searching for hope   
I did see her vanish  
In the smoke and dust of the vehicles
But I saw her withered eyes again
When I closed my eyes to pray…..

~Satish.C.J~

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