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Monday, August 18, 2025
YourTurnSubscriberWrites: A Brother Lost–a poem

SubscriberWrites: A Brother Lost–a poem

An apolitical musing on the India-Pak relations.

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hear hear
the sirens blare
might be drones out
don’t roam about

 

stay at home, lock the doors

it’s our Brother again

with a grudge

and a death wish

 

let’s bury the hatchet, he says with a smile

five minutes later, launches a missile

says one, does another

such déjà vu, no shame ever


crippled by internal turmoil,

on borrowed money for the pain

still the ego, so much vain

to some deep wound he does refer

says we have his ‘Jugular’

 

next time he invites for a Bus visit

hope for no ‘Samjhauta’, nothing close to it

because Hijacked by the past is his mind

a body Reigned by Hate, to that he is blind

 

even a child knows – 

Keep licking a wound, if you will

fester and ooze, it won’t heal

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