The fair #haiku

The fair 
was in the making
With tents, wares and banners
Filling the bland venue

Attractive goods
Arrived in truckloads
Glittering and mouth watering
Shining and new

Each priced
Beyond their value
Seeking
Beyond what’s due

Then arrived the people
In swarms like bees
Seeking the wants
Much beyond their needs

In their convergence
Lay the war of needs
every transaction fought
with the deadly arsenal of greed

In the end
The time was up
There were some goods unsold
And some wants unfulfilled

The fair was over
Each one left
Loading the unsold or sold
Filling the trucks once again till the very brim

What remained
Was the empty bland venue
Silent witness of the spectacle
Oft repeated in its bosom

For the trucks will once again arrive
With the unsold and unfulfilled
Creating the wants and greed
Where there was none

Fair is in making
once again at the same venue
which remained always
bland and new

You live only in memories

As the wheels move
Into the inferno
Hungry flames leap
ever ready to devour

The flesh burns
And the ashes remain
Putrid smell narrating
the gruesome galore

There breaks
The unseen mortal thread
Nothing to carry,
No singing of a lore

Yet it tugs
On the heavy hearts
That still beat
Despite not existing anymore

For only there
and nowhere else
It’s existence remains
Where it lives for evermore

Words out of the Cage

Few words 
escaped my clamped cage
grouping together
They climbed up on the stage

They were incited
by the persuasive thought
One that ignited the mind
to go boldly, beyond the taught

In a group
there is a shared courage
Afraid and trembling, no more
They stand together on the stage

Up on the stage
They gather up in a sentence
Speaking loud and clear
Fearlessly breaking the learnt pretence

And then they spoke
to the many ears
Some moved, in melancholy
Some shedding customary tears

The thought had moved
now it echoed in other minds
The words are resonating
And they are no longer just mine

Out of the cage
In the air
Singing along
Without a care

#WDYS

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