Relent Rivalry (Before It Is Too Late) Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

Words -''Mother, Father,
grandpa, grandma'', keep echoing,
brothers, sisters also remembered
as memories keep re-appearing,
as days turn into years
and though miles and decades
moves a family into many distant
homes and places
nothing prevents the togetherness
which in the circumference of the eyes
keeps recalling those moments
of laughter and joy, trials and tribulations;
sometimes siblings in love dwell
building bridges of relationship,
while some in jealousy and prejudice
build fences of endless discontent;
and though born together, lived together
apart falls harmony and unity
as misunderstandings, hatred
fails to decline from those calculated minds
which fills itself with thoughts so hostile
that the threads of cordiality never re-connect;
finally, in the running-race of time on earth
all reach the same dead-end of life
at some point or another
and none realize that what they leave behind
is just an inert skeleton which rests
with no mind to think, no strength to move,
in a niche dismantled it sleeps
or somewhere in some remote corner
unknown, pitilessly, it relents it's fate.