320. Knock Together

Intoxicating liquor
Strong and powerful
Touched the lips
To knock out reality.

It Promised to Knock off
Relics of pains and gains
Yet it knocked in a flood of
Ever so strong memories.

Time crept by at snails pace
Nothing could be knocked out
Feelings of high and low
Was replaced by remorse .

Knocked down by draught
Life in the arid land
Lay distraut and fraught
With many staring dead.

It wished  politics to knock together
For the benefit of the commoners
And save the millions
From the tortures of draught.

Liquor could not drown
Or ease the sufferings.
Helplessly starred the land
Hoping to knock in change.


@Binita Jha