MERCY  ! MERCY!
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Lock in,lock up, lock out,
WAKE UP,WAKE UP!
Wake up to the call of misery
Echoing in homes  barren of  food,
Morbid silence  of desert-like roads,
MERCY! MERCY! MERCY!

Hear you not,
Cold  footsteps of death
Shadowing   all corners,  thresholds-
Cosy and safe,till yesterdawn?

Flapping of wings  slowing,
Chirpings  and laughter draining,
Sunshine, moonbeam.starlight  ebbing,
Whisper  once,I beg you, Only once,
Which our  LIGHT
For unlocking the doors. . . . . .
Choking  our world so-
MERCY! MERCY!  OH  MERCY!
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Nuggehalli Pankaja