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Johnson Oyeniran Apr 2022
Everbody dies,
Some before their
Time,
Others alone
Without
Anyone by their bedside.

Quite pointless
To
Ask why,
For such is life.
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
When thunder is replaced with the screaming of an unborn child
And clouds choose to rain tears instead

When this dunya becomes a graveyard
And the seven seas give birth to one ocean of death

When the empty stomach of a black coloured men makes for a white supremacist's money bag

And when your lungs are used to carry the ashes of my faithful men

Then don't read to us from tales that greyed out your chest
Read of the walls that collected broken limbs
Read, from heart to chest
Read red to us
Carlo C Gomez Mar 2022
~
A room lives in Zoria
And also the trees
At a critical distance
She seeks their shelter
An abiding solace
To wash free
To swim sea
Who can blame
The suffering of her stream
Whether it be
A time for hanging on
Or a time for passing
Let the waters come
And overtake her
Flooding her with
Safeguarding arms

~
For those suffering in Ukraine
Philip Lawrence Mar 2022
the battle rages,

terror, death, grief,

the witness immobile, inconsolable

until the bearers of courage and kindness,

their selfless acts the true thieves of breath,

become the grantors of tears,

of sorrow, of joy,

of humanity
Zywa Mar 2022
A human doesn't

belong to humanity --


It is not a group.
The concept of humanity is fictitious

Collection "The drama"
Daivik Mar 2022
कोई नहीं पराया, मेरा घर संसार है।

मैं ना बँधा हूँ देश-काल की जंग लगी जंजीर में,
मैं ना खड़ा हूँ जाति-पाति की ऊँची-नीची भीड़ में,
मेरा धर्म ना कुछ स्याही शब्दों का सिर्फ गुलाम है,
मैं बस कहता हूँ कि प्यार है तो घट-घट में राम है,
मुझ से तुम ना कहो कि मंदिर-मस्जिद पर मैं सर टेक दूँ,
मेरा तो आराध्य आदमी, देवालय हर द्वार है।
कोई नहीं पराया, मेरा घर सारा संसार है।

कहीं रहे कैसे भी मुझको प्यारा यह इन्सान है,
मुझको अपनी मानवता पर बहुत-बहुत अभिमान है,
अरे नहीं देवत्व, मुझे तो भाता है मनुजत्व ही,
और छोड़कर प्यार नहीं स्वीकार सकल अमरत्व भी,
मुझे सुनाओ तुम न स्वर्ग-सुख की सुकुमार कहानियाँ,
मेरी धरती सौ-सौ स्वर्गों से ज्यादा सुकुमार है।
कोई नहीं पराया, मेरा घर सारा संसार है ।।
 
मुझे मिली है प्यास विषमता का विष पीने के लिए,
मैं जन्मा हूँ नहीं स्वयं-हित, जग-हित जीने के लिए,
मुझे दी गई आग कि इस तम में मैं आग लगा सकूँ,
गीत मिले इसलिए कि घायल जग की पीड़ा गा सकूँ,
मेरे दर्दीले गीतों को मत पहनाओ हथकड़ी,
मेरा दर्द नहीं मेरा है, सबका हाहाकार है।
कोई नहीं पराया, मेरा घर सारा संसार है ।।

मैं सिखलाता हूँ कि जिओ औ' जीने दो संसार को,
जितना ज्यादा बाँट सको तुम बाँटो अपने प्यार को,
हँसों इस तरह, हँसे तुम्हारे साथ दलित यह धूल भी,
चलो इस तरह कुचल न जाये पग से कोई शूल भी,
सुख, न तुम्हारा सुख केवल जग का भी उसमें भाग है,
फूल डाल का पीछे, पहले उपवन का श्रृंगार है।
कोई नहीं पराया मेरा घर सारा संसार है।

- गोपालदास 'नीरज'
dorian green Mar 2022
I REACH OUT TO THE GREAT UNKOWN
with the natural hesitance of a child
nursed on plastic american protestantism,
always prosperity gospel or pariah,
answers just hidden behind a preacher's palm;
in retrospect i wonder what questions those
republican suburbanites crippled in their hatred
came to submit at the foot of the cross.
saccharine and soulless every sunday,
the rot reliably festering under the church stage,
brimstone traded for the wasteland of undecaying concrete.
i was baptized by a stranger in stagnant water,
now swaddled in the arms of a man who is not my Father.
i'm always the cold one. bad circulation when i'm turning away.
that abattoir left a pulsating wound at the
center of my chest— starved weeping
sickly and red.
every sunday, the worst thing i could do was be honest.
i worship with my hands,
i falter for words;
i never got to know the Lord in my youth
because He never called me back.
i find fragments of Him in lovers' eyes—
fingertips glancing over flesh as if
forbidden fruit, sweet real and warmed by sunlight.
i think God was always this;
physicality, connection,
the simple intimacy of making someone else laugh.
the only time i ever felt devout
was when i was walking to get an arizona tea
at the gas station next to the church with my friends.
stumbling over asphalt still sincere in my vulnerability.
Daivik Mar 2022
Live for the sake of it
Love for the heck of it
Because that is what we were made to do
Because that is what we've got to do
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