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Once Lucky, Twice Shy

Contributed by tejas9999 on Sunday, 22nd April 2007 @ 03:39:52 AM in AEST
Topic: fictional

Once lucky, twice shy

The moonlit silver sky
Hides behind the dark clouds
As three men sit around a fire
Wrapped in black colored shrouds

They seem to be waiting
Looking at the sky
As the clouds, start clearing
And the prophecy passes by

A shooting star comes into view
Its faint tail dragging behind
The three men smiled
This is what they had in their mind

The heaven had said its saying
The rain will come right on time
The crops were gonna be good
That’s what said the fortuneteller divine

The three men were going to be rich
That is what happens who sees this shooting star
They had heard from their ancient fathers
Who were now dead and far

So the three men went home
And never they met again
They had said their goodbyes forever
In sickness and in pain

But ten years later
At the same cloud-clearing place
Met the three men again
Who recognized each other’s face

“Nice to meet ya’ll again”
Said the first man
The other two nodded
And that was the plan

It had rained well
For the past ten years
And the crops had flourished well
In those salt-less happy tears

The three of them had made Money
That could last for generations ahead
But they were back for more again
And not sleeping happily in their bed

So the clouds parted again
And a tail less shooting star passed
They tried to shield their eyes
Now their lucks had been surpassed

This was a very bad omen
To see a tailless shooting star
They were begging and crying
As their luck’s were left a scar

Famines came drying the crops
And flood came taking them away
The money was running away from their banks
And there was nothing that could make it stay

They had failed themselves
They had failed their future
Greed had taken all away, leaving
A wound that was too hard to suture

Tejas Thakker

Copyright Â© tejas9999 ... [ 2007-04-22 03:39:52]
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