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THE MIRAGE OF WORLD PEACE


Ah, World Peace.

I ask myself if I have ever really known this mirage of promissory peace

That we want to catch

But the farther away it flees. 

Do we really know peace

When everything around us reminds us of what peace is not?

The illuminated TV screens blinking with the biased beats and booms

Of the constant noise and the doom that we have created gloriously for ourselves. Our mankind failing men and women alike

Putting on a Broadway show, one after next, to distract from the pitiful reality.

I flick through my brain

That stores the half baked, mugged up pages of the textbooks in the name of education.

I flick through to determine when did we initiate this downfall.

Was it today when the sun was preparing its bed

To fall asleep, curled up in a blanket of dark

While a hungry impoverished family took its last breath in Yemen?

Or wait

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Was it too many yesterdays away when the League of Nations failed and the world broke into another world war?

The chiming train engines

Chattering out loud

Anger and frowns drawn upon people’s mouth. There is a constant underlying rage,

Politicians juggling tranquillity every hour, every day. Who’s to light the way

When the people of today

Are bitter from many yesterdays

Too focused on past and future

To create a new dawn today!

Written by Siddhi Joshi

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