Anoucheka pens a powerful poem on burning social issues, highlighting the tragedies of our existence, exclusively for Different Truths.

The tragedy of our existence
Lies in the confusion that surrounds us.
Forever are we to swivel in an environment
As if we were eternal beings
When covered, we are by mystery
Swirling in some unexplained temporality!
 
The tragedy of our existence
Is when our hearts somersault
At the sight of golden oceans, for,
Imbibed they are with different life forms from ours
Yet, these keep being prone to pollution,
Of all sorts, 
To the extent of even consuming these
To either die from them
Or to transmit the filth to us!

The tragedy of our existence
It occurs when we glance at
The innocence in children’s eyes
But see, reflected from them,
The horrors of trauma as they
I have lived through them
And instead of hoping for 
Better tomorrow for them, we see,
Dead-end streets in a cold and murky world!

The tragedy of our existence
Lies in the fact that this world belongs to us all,
It produces food and expects us all to share it
Yet, in some corners of the world,
People die of hunger while others
Rush towards leaves or insects merely to survive!

The tragedy of our existence
Is nothing else other than the fact
That we cling on to that which is material
Even if we shed it all off,
Someday, when the fate that is ours and
That we have accepted and that we live by
Even if we have no say in it,
Shall come to its closure! 

Still, while we live,
We can make of this tragedy,
A romance, by merely being
Aware and conscious of its essence
And of how it shall play itself for us,
Thereby adorning ourselves with the robe
Of nobility, both human and spiritual and being thus, 
Empowered actors playing out roles in a world 
Which shall never be ours!

Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths

Anoucheka Gangabissoon

Anoucheka Gangabissoon is a primary school educator in Mauritius. She writes poems and short stories on a wide range of subjects. She publishes regularly on online poetry sites and manages her own poetry blog. She has published a collection of poems in print, in her country, titled “Awakened Fancies.”