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HORIZON, 2020-21

How so often the

world seems somber

- THARUN gurunath

11B

How so often the world seems somber,

So dark, desolate and cold to touch.
Air raid sirens welcome the bombers,

And instruments of death, very much.

The populace reeks of dissent,

Of war, of violence and of strife.
But even in this maddened descent,

There exists hope and there exists life.

"A thousand days I'll last", mother said, "living

to nurture my kith and kin."

"But what if the days run out?", they asked.
"Ha! Then I shall last a thousand more"

Mother raised us in dirt and squalor,
But it never felt dirty, never,

For she did help us make it all ours,
Stars, the moon and the nights forever.

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