Reaped
And then you decide to shine
To drink and rhyme
Funny world and funny people
Crazy and alone is this night
We are the fruits of hard labor
Grown to be reaped of joy
Succumb to the social cry
And then left to spread the false smile
Let the blood know it’s enough
You don’t rule the nerves in us
But then standing up is a job of another life
We were born in this century to be slaughtered and die.
© Akhand Singh, 2015 © An Empty Glass, 2015