In a world without wars
The children are not
Separated from homes
Escaping buried destinies
In shell-shocked rubbles
Clinging to rickety boats
With tattered hopes
To be washed ashore
Swept into the sand
As twisted deadwood
To be long forgotten
By the ailing world
Only to be lamented
In the gnawing pain
Of those who cared
But were powerless
To control the bloodlust
Of men sans conscience
These words keep ringing in my mind. There is so much going around us but we are afraid to speak up.
Screaming into the void
Like lunatics caged, gagged
Muzzled emotions, numbed
Trolled for spoken words
Sounds buried in the head
Sane voices, now long dead
Victim to resounding fear!
How to silence the howls
Raging, trapped in the mind
Injustice bellows, how to find
Respite, refuge from wounds
Growing like sepsis, unheeded
Gasping for breathe, unheard
Mauled into total surrender.
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We are pleased to announce the winners of this contest a couple days early! Mentioned below are all the winning writers and stories that have qualified to be published in our next publication. Congratulations! Top 3: Antoinette Fritckz, Aneesha Shewani, Mutovz Waltzer Name Title Of Your Story Aishiki Bandyopadhyay A Different…
We are pleased to announce the winners of this contest a couple days early!
Mentioned below are all the winning writers and stories that have qualified to be published in our next publication.
Congratulations!
Top 3:Antoinette Fritckz,Aneesha Shewani, Mutovz Waltzer
| Name | Title Of Your Story |
| Aishiki Bandyopadhyay | A Different Shade Of Love |
| Aneesha Shewani | The Last Song |
| Antoinette Fritckz | Summer Showers |
| Anukriti Kotwal | Conditioned To Love You |
| Bhavna Jagnani | The Holy Grail |
| Charu Gandhi | An Apposite Story |
| Dikshita Parasar | Am I Not A Human Too? |
| Ektaa Rupani | Serendipity |
| Emma Wells | The Edge Of Nine |
| Ishita Chattopadhyay | Stairs To Heaven: A Love No One Could Destroy |
| Jahanvi Pandya | Prayers And Hopes Of The Royals |
| Kevin K. Mcvalley | Dear Janelle, Yours Truly Molly |
| Lakshmi Haridas | Lost And Found |
| Maitreyee | Bloom As You Are |
| Manami Mandal | Cherry |
| Mutovz Waltzer | Eight Rainbows |
| Nandana Vinod | Pluto |
| Napoleon Finnley | The Fountain |
| Nilanjana Chakraborty | Nikita… |
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A thousand miles away
Stars in a distant array
Speak to me of destinies
That lend to life it’s mystery
In luminous, fiery novas
In sparkly, fallen crystals
In comets singed to ashes
The fate lines in our palms
Etched in celestial splashes
Don’t be a stranger
To the voices within
For they hold reflections
Of your deepest sins.
Hear them out
When they proclaim
The path to be free
Of the guilt and pain,
To claim absolution
In knowing the truth
That you are only human
When you slip and fail!
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