Saturday, September 02, 2017

death in the mining pond


Death in the mining pond
The carelessness of a man
He wanted to do his private business
Squating near the edge of ex-mining pool

The edge was slippery
He didn't get a foothole
He slipped right into the mining pond
Dragging him into the dark hollow

A nearby man tried to help him
Throwing him a bamboo stick to hold
The drowning man couldn't grab it
It was panic seeing his life sinking in

The mining pond has claimed a few lives
Through the years lives had been lost
The stories of committed suicides
The stories of men going hook and fish

It is a dead end
The resting souls of people died
The hungry souls shouting for release
In the darkness of water to get free

The man died*
He wasn't saved
Though help was there
His life just slipped away

The age old saying
Say a few words of asking the spirits
In places of bad karma or in jungle
Before a person wants to do anything

* it is a secondary story told to me

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