Prof. Ram’s poem explores an entity perceived as nearly dangerous, an outsider blamed for self-inflicted suffering, seeking to erase their impact for peace, for Different Truths.

It’s near but
every place has a distance
and people to
 
they flee to see
me in their vicinity
sense a danger
 
I don’t belong:
they curse me for what I’m not
self-made misery
 
traps them in hell
I can’t help their doom nor stop
their wanton rage
 
down to smallness
they hate only themselves and
sculpt new sorrows
 
I must erase
the debris of dreams they have
and be at peace

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Prof Ram Krishna Singh

Ram Krishna Singh is a widely published, anthologised, and translated poet with over 25 poetry collections to his credit. His recent poetry collections include Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), Silence: A White Distrust (English/Japanese, Kindle Edition/Paperback, 2022), Poems and Micropoems (Southern Arizona Press, USA, 2023) and Knocking Vistas and Other Poems.

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