LOVE SURVIVED

The streets are filled with naked homes

Mutilated cars and bikes share the road

With decaying corpses of men and animals

The vultures and crows are nowhere in sight

Empty shells of bullets and bombs litter everywhere
Like a ghost town in an apocalyptic Hollywood thriller

The city is barren of life

From the market now barren of buyers and sellers

To schools and public parks now devoid

Of the innocent laughter of children

The churches and mosques empty

Deserted by both saints and sinners

The campus empty of adventurous youths

Government offices lay abandoned and looted

With no civil servants in sight

The sick have escaped from the hospitals

The prison is empty of both warders and criminals

The city is as noisy as a cemetery at night

But despite all these signs of death

I still walk with hope 

For I am sure somewhere amidst this wreckage

Love has survived and waiting for someone to find her

For she had survived worst