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Sacrifice...

  • Writer: Shaanvi Rai
    Shaanvi Rai
  • Sep 12, 2024
  • 1 min read

With a bouquet of flowers,

She walked around,

Trying to uplift the sorrows.

Rose for the weeping widow,

Lilies for the sad boy,

Daisies for the suffering.

Little by little,

The flowers were gone

And all the sorrows of the world,

She bore in her.

 
 
 

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