Gaash

My cry resounds across the world; this world of mine would have been otherwise a wilderness. How could I have sworn by you otherwise? Who would have bothered to evaluate the words? The earth of mine would have been an ash-bin.…

I know not since when, I was not only visible but naked to the eye, Who so ever might have seen me must have rightly been attracted. The robes on my body must have gradually been torn apart into tatters, What not must have been…

The interests of the city have from the earliest times been opposed to the interests of the villages. The city people want grain and other villages produce at rates far below the cost of production. ‘What the eye does not see the heard does…

Dearest friend, you go and look out for my beloved, For my saplings have an inferno to bear. I even looked at tarots for motherhood, Tied sacred threads in shrines If the lord doesn't provide you, you are no good,…

From the pages of The light bulb in the room is of low voltage. A pale, sad light-they cannot afford high-voltage lamps for each of the eighteen rooms- is, has been for more than a year, his sole companion as he paints deer,…

Thou blessed mother of the universe. Shed thou Thine haloed light on us. And merge our finite into Thine infinite For, are we not sparks of Thy light? Reinforce thy field of action with The spirit of duty and devotion, The seeds of…

"Ah ! Those days of Poverty. How good they were! How light was this heavy frame! How good that was for us! A family, A big dish pot and a hearth in the kitchen; How good all that was! We, hard workers, A labourer, a carpenter; How…

Listen, my friend! He gave me His rosary as a token of His love, but alas! I failed to take care of it and lost it! I was unworthy. I have no hope to recover those precious beads by groping in my blindness. To be so lucky one must…

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