‎There lies a land behind the smoke,
‎Where silence screams and hearts are broke
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‎Where lullabies drown in bombs and drones
‎And cradles turn to shattered stones
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‎Babies cry with lips so dry
‎No blood, no milk, no tear left to cry
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‎No schoolbell rings, no hospital stands,
‎Just bones and ruins buried in the sand
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‎They queue for crumbs and bleed for rice
‎A bottle of water, the price of life
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‎Each has lost _ be it a child or spouse
‎a parent, a sibling or a shattered house
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‎Then phosphorus rains on wrecked-out souls
‎To burn their skin to elevate their pains
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‎And we the modern civilized race
‎Watch stage 5 famine take its place
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‎What further war-crimes must I define
‎Palestine bleeds while the world stays blind

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Paghunda Zahid

I was a Moon in a dark abyss
Wandering alone in tormented solace
As aimlessly as a fish in bowl
Glumly glad within my alien abode

In a spur _ you appeared from Nowhere
A Blackhole pulling me towards its angelic snare
Rearranging the space time fabric
To a whole new world mystifying yet aesthetic

And I couldn't resist, for that Benignity
set my heart ablazed _ filled its Valence shell
Entwined with you I will step in eternity soon
Hoping, your floral rugs bear stars and moons..!!

Screams, screeches, groans and wails,
Brutalities, agonies, torture, and blood,
Tear Gases, pallet guns, bullets and bombs
Humanity sobs, world is falling apart

Kids are blinded
Men are jailed
Women are molested
The old are tortured

Luckily, you have food
Billions are starving
You have a warm blanket
Trillions live under the frigid sky

Dreams are murdered
Voices are  unheard
Wishes are being blurred
Every heart has become graveyard

Sweet melodies step down as Sighs take over the throne
Rainbow of Joy is washed by the deluge of tears
Soul of humanity becomes a pray of endless wild Forest of Wars
Even the Sun refuses to rise above the Plumb, snowy mountains

Yet you say world is beautiful??
For you are at peace….
Come out of your palace
You will see….
Sky painting itself red!
Butterflies renouncing their dreams
Birds with trimmed wings
Blood oceans, barren trees, burnt houses,
Teared eyes, and shattered bodies

Earth is ugly
Earth is savage
Earth is a cage
Earth is a jinxed place
                  (Paghunda Zahid)