As night is blind –
We have gone blind.
As fire blazes to burn –
We are blazing in our own fires.
Black as pitch –
Is the river of our thinking.
No answers come.
Each day is a mysterious stranger –
Who knows what catastrophes lie ahead!
Our world is aflame!
As night is blind –
We have gone blind.
As fire blazes to burn –
We are blazing in our own fires.
Hatred.
More Hatred.
Vengeance.
More Vengeance.
In their immensity:
We are all submerged.
As night is blind –
We have gone blind.
As fire blazes to burn –
We are blazing in our own fires.
Is it all real or feigned!
Dreadful prophecies bubble in blood.
No nation is secure.
Count the gravestones.
Take a guess at how many sleep
In nameless graves!
As night is blind –
We have gone blind.
As fire blazes to burn –
We are blazing in our own fires.
Ringed round by trivial things –
We have missed out on the big issues.
It is easy mocking suffering,
In bitterness we are crushed.
How easy it is to kill!
How easily the young have been lost.
As night is blind –
We have gone blind.
As fire blazes to burn –
We are blazing in our own fires.
My way of anguish –
Is the way of so many!
The dreams of peace and solitude
Are the dreams of most people.
But in reality –
We have all gone mad!
As night is blind –
We have gone blind.
As fire blazes to burn –
We are blazing in our own fires.
Dubai
23rd February 2015
Geeta Chhabra
