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Utter desolation

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16/05/25

How the wind blows!
How the heat grows!
How evil festers!

Every delightful dish
Every mouthwatering speciality
Every tasty treat

Available from your fingertips…

And yet,

Not enough to feed
Not enough to quench
Not enough to save

Those babies.

Who has caused this famine?

Global warming?
Climate chaos?
Sometimes…

But this time,

Wolves remain unblemished
Waves of heat remain peaceful
Wisps of wind remain unchained

Our hands must be blamed.

Indifference
Carelessness.
Reckless hate

You and me
Them and us
All of us.

How can we eat?
How can we drink?
How can we waste?

When babies are silently dying of hunger.

Where are you my brother?
Where are you my sister?
Where am I lost?

Must our hands remain chained
Must our brains remain dazzed
Must our soul remain weighed

By our own lingering hell?
This greed inducing machine!

Unabling us to act righteously
Distracting us from thinking morally
Preventing us from feeling compassion.

If all the chaos settled
If all the roar faded
If all those screens dimmed…

I must believe that

We would stand as one
We would rise as one
We would cry as one :

Not in our name
Not in our watch
Not in our lifetime.

No more.

Didn’t we say it before?

Never again.

The wind scatter frail buds
The heat weakens old barks
Evil feasts deep from the roots.

Leaving desolation

Where a tall forest stood
Where a lush forest grew.
Where a deep forest grew.

Desolation.

Razed to the ground.
Bulddozed into dust.
Flatten beyond recognition.

Utter desolation.

Why do you ask me which tree?

All are linked
As we all are.

All are part of the world
As we all are.

All are spreading
As we all are.

One falls
And we all fall.

And yet,

I feed my baby until she sleeps.
I eat until my stomach is filled.
Even my cat is content…

While those babies starve,
In complete indifference.

A journey back to God – Homeward

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A collection of poems that depicts the poet’s mystical and spiritual journey. This journey takes the reader through the valleys of nature, love and infinity. All these paths leads to the One. It’s a love story between the poet and God. The poet takes you through many veils of illusions as she tries to find her way.

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05/08/19

~ Layla ~ Leave a comment 
 I close my eyes
 breathe in
 Breathe out.
 

 I can feel your pain.
 I can feel your struggle.
 I can feel your hopelessness.
 

 I open my eyes
 Look around
 Look about.
 

 You are not here.
 But I am here.
 

 With a soft voice
 I sing for you.
 

 With a strong voice
 I pray for you.
 

 With a voiceless voice
 I hold you.
 

 As I lay down to sleep
 I try to remember your face.
 

 As i settled down to sleep,
 I try to reach you.
 

 As fall down in sleep,
 I try to write to you.
 

 In my dreams,
 I write and I write.
 

 In my dreams
 I share and I share.
 

 In my dreams,
 I dare and I dare.
 

 And then I wake up,
 And I remember.
 

 And then I remember,
 how you you left.
 

 And you left,
 never to return.