On Starvation and War Without Peace

Famine & War are Brothers Image: Tufts University

On Starvation

 She is eighteen 

An age to dance.

.. She knows not her age 

Her face wrinkled with sunlight and dust

 Once could have been pretty

 Now in her tattered clothes,

 With swollen belly lying on a street Begs in a broken bowl.

 The remaining one rupee Snatched by a rogue

 Tomorrow death may strike On an unknown street 

Tomorrow death may strike in any street

 Across the continents….

 Millions will starve Millions will die

 For want of food…

 Only one question will be asked to them 

By the prosperous “Go and search for work!” 

Work? 

Woman Near the River

 Diverged distant dreams

 Shattered dreams 

Of life and beyond life 

Deaths seemed to be easy on them

 Dreams that are now non-existent. beneath the yellow sand of the riverbank 

Breaking sand, one could see …

Fossilized bodies of frozen women 

Bodies earlier drenched in red. 

By men

 Their men

 Our men

 Your men 

My men. 

War and No Peace

Do you want to know 

Meaning of Peace?

Then

Read Kafka. 

If you want to know 

Of our powerlessness 

Then

Read Camus.

If you want to know

About war

Just

Listen to 

The music of

Ukrainian singers.
Rhythm of their instruments..

The songs are not melodies

They are  shrieks .

Instruments measure

the noise of the wreck….

And when  you really want to wail

Look at

Picture of

The Last Supper

Jesus will make you sob

He will make you cry…

Mandira Ghosh .