Eerily empty,
places all around, forsaken.
No scampering feet,
no jostling crowds,
no haggling customers,
no springtime frolicking.
Nothing.
The fountain sings alone,
old coins rusting at its base.
No hushed secrets,
no whispered confessions,
no more a witness
to furtive kisses.
Everywhere, all around,
a ghostly silence,
thick grey shroud,
beneath which,
the questions lurk,
the whats, whos, wheres,
their answers eluding,
confounding.
Deep inside the caves,
there is science and reason,
the protections, the preventions.
Out in the garden,
the flowers are blooming,
red and yellow and white
and the birds are chirping
and cat, basking in sunshine.
places all around, forsaken.
No scampering feet,
no jostling crowds,
no haggling customers,
no springtime frolicking.
Nothing.
The fountain sings alone,
old coins rusting at its base.
No hushed secrets,
no whispered confessions,
no more a witness
to furtive kisses.
Everywhere, all around,
a ghostly silence,
thick grey shroud,
beneath which,
the questions lurk,
the whats, whos, wheres,
their answers eluding,
confounding.
Deep inside the caves,
there is science and reason,
the protections, the preventions.
Out in the garden,
the flowers are blooming,
red and yellow and white
and the birds are chirping
and cat, basking in sunshine.
Linking with Friday Fictioneers
The picture prompt for this week is
PHOTO PROMPT © Ceayr
Don't the science and reason need to exist with the colours and the cats? Without them we can't be sure what a colour is, why and how cats are, or what it all means
ReplyDeleteOf course, we need science and we need reason..
DeleteThanks for stopping by.
Welfare unto all
Rab rakha
Dear Ruby,
ReplyDeleteThere is science and there is reason. I hope they aren't mutually exclusive. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Science and reason go hand in hand and help us understand many a mysteries of life.
DeleteThank you for stopping by
Welfare unto all
Rab rakha
Lovely, Ruby.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Dale.
DeleteWelfare unto all
Rab rakha