Basement/Underground

Few lines on the ongoing war in Middle East and Ukraine where people from both sides are suffering

Basement/Underground

No sun or it’s rays

Peering from curtains

That don’t wave

On windows that don’t exist

In a place

Where no light or sound does ever reach

It’s the mobile alarm

That wakes people from sleep

For alarm clocks are antique

Costly and rare

Like peace nowadays

Basements are safe

Much safer than the houses above

Houses explode randomly

Missiles and drones diving down

Passionately

To hold them in an embrace

It’s people’s mistake

If they are present there

Behind the walls below the roofs

For no one wants to kill them

At least

That’s what both sides say

From earth we rise, to earth we go

In between too, some need to approach

Bowels of earth to hide their folks

Especially at night

Day is a different bristling with fear

Yet no one can, hide from their work

For work pays to build and run

Stock with meat and buns

Their basements

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar