I asked so many –
A question bugging me from quite long ….
Which is the safest place for children
A place they can call as their own ?
Where there’s no division of caste or creed
Or religious hatred grown
A place secured and safe
Where dear ones haven’t left
Where they are not in despair
Where love is seeded and not hatred and fear
Where schools may not turn to graves
Where they won’t lose their parents’ nest
Where they won’t lose their sleep
Where their hopes and dreams are not stabbed steep
Where there’s clear sky, not the sight of missiles thrown
Where they can hear the birds chirp and not the siren roars
Not hounded with the sight of ambulance fleet
Where they need not find teddy from heaps of concrete
Who’s going to give them food or water
Who’s going to give them a shelter amidst the fear
I wonder who’s winning the war?
Where the missiles target the innocent and no one cares
The superpowers of the globe meet and greet
They don’t care to notice the stains of bloodshed on the street!
The fleet of high-tech missiles
Can catch the radars of opposite strikes
They can’t wipe off the tears from the innocent eyes
They can’t promise a safe shelter for the ordinary lives
They can smear off a mother’s lap in no time at all
A father’s hand is holding the corpse of his lad wailing out loud
An injured girl crying out for her mother’s hand
She won’t be able to eat or even stand
So the safe haven for the children is now a lie
When humanity has died long back and barbaric killings across the sky!
The question still lingers on my mind
Is there any way we can find
A safe place for the innocent lives?
Who can learn the language of love and care
And teach the world leaders what’s fair!
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Well Crafted ❤️ if only the world would have been more compassionate we would be living in a better place
Such a heartfelt and beautifully composed words.👍🏻👍🏻♥️♥️
Very well written…the harsh reality is that those who want war don’t go to war and like any other calamities the most affected part of war is women,elderly persons and children and that is well delineated by your poem