GNAWING PAIN

POEM

Imagine the agonizing

thoughts, shock and fright

of workers from abroad

when a civil war breaks

out in a nation

claiming the lives

of hundreds and thousands

of citizens fall prey 

to the incessant bombings

ground offensives

between the ruling

militia and the equally

violent opposition forces.

Imagine the state of

minds of the near and dear ones of

skilled and unskilled

workers who have flown

into the shattered

nation before the

civil war broke out

to eke out a living

for him and his family abroad.

Imagine their prayers

round the clock to

the omnipotent God, their

loving God to look

after their dear ones

trapped in the civil war hit country

and save the citizens from dangers of

the war-hit nation also

at the earliest…..