A Life Ends...

 

My heart today-

Wept with the feeling,

That cry for a meagre meal,

Hunger, sorrow, pain

A realization of how it feels...

Adversity teaches

And it is the greatest teacher,

A feeling that's real

And far realistic than any feeling other...

Struggling for a grain of rice,

A piece of cloth to cover,

Cruel winds broke away our walls

Took with it our roof

Of a home that was...

Sorrow but no one to see,

Tears that itself dry on cheeks,

Pain but no one to heal,

Our cries who would heed?

Every sound now infuriates,

Every hope is darkness,

Every moment this pain increases,

I hope that's how

A life ends...

-Bidyut

(Wrote sometime in the October of 2006.)

Published in "Melange" Sunday Magazine of "The Sentinel" newspaper (Assam) Nov 5, 2006

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