People Hardly Notice... Poem by Raihana Abdul Jabbar

Curls of blue smoke,
Deep and Dense,
Rising up...up...up...
A Vampire From Death...

Closing their eyes,
The twinkling stars, fell apart...
The smiling crescent,
Turned Upside Down...

People Hardly Noticed,
For the glitz of the sky scrapers,
Have blinded their eyes....

The droning bumble bees,
Never whizzed past ears...
The band of the songsters,
Never sang their morning melody....

People Hardly Noticed,
For the nasty, rude car honks,
Have deafened their ears...

People those who cared,
For the scent of early winter blooms...
And the sweetness of the purest drop,
Couldn't but sigh, a feeble voice...

For the chaos for
CIVILIZATION....they call it so...
Have dumbed their speech....

The filthy vampire smirks...
Upon the heartless people....
In a haze, is mother nature....
In a haze, are her children...