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Amita’s poem deals with war, death, disaster, and ennui – an exclusive for Different Truths.

As I wonder what to cook for dinner,
I glance through news headlines,
I read that a star has gobbled up a planet
So cosmic, so distant, so irrelevant.
 
Just as the USA, Ukraine, Sudan, or Turkey 
Or elsewhere
War, tsunami, earthquake, school shooting
Gobbles up, innocents.  
Humanity gobbled up. Humane hearts gobbled up. 
It was gobbled up by insane hate or Nature’s wrath.
Global village, global citizens, global warming,
But Global peace? 
So commonly used, yet distant, yet so relevant.
How global can a Self be? 
How about cooking dinner, 
Dollops of ghee on garam
garam, naram Khichdi?
Live in the moment.
Anyway, next it could be that this Planet’s asteroid struck,
Or Star gobbled.

Picture design by Anumita Roy


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