Mayhem
Cities explode
Lives evaporate
Sympathies implode
Boundaries petrify
Humans are cattle in a container
Herded in pain and rain
World an abattoir
Terrorist knife slits throats of the innocent
For the crimes of the
far and the powerful
Power-hungry
bombs vanish humans
For being civilians in a marked country
World is Mad
Still needs peace
Despite Hell-fire of fundamentalism
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Victims of War
The World War I
The mother of all wars
Millions were cannon fodder
The World War II
Crores of people cadavers
Atom bomb ended innocence and war
Partition of India
Divided hearts and countries
Refugees and Religious killings
Cold war
Created mistrust and missiles
The last century turned
The earth red
Mass graves
for the dead
Man aggressive, woman submissive
Crushed by possessiveness
We
Turned victims of vindictiveness.
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The Plague
Releasing doves of Peace
Into the skyscape of human race
Is it going to give us solace?
Can we harvest a crop
Without the sowing seeds of
Justice?
Night of ignorance breeds forces of darkness
Light of
wisdom exorcises demons
of despair
Till then war hovers over the earth
Like
dark clouds
That gather menacingly and mercilessly
Like locusts
That steal crop swiftly
and merrily.
Healing
Life is a conflict
Between itself and death
War
a wound
Made by the trade and ambition
Love
a balm
Prescribed by the pious and prophets
To save the soul of life
Does anyone kiss the edge of the blade
In lieu of darling’s
lips ?
How long peace a
daydream
of the brave
Or a nightmare of the Knave ?
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