Life without Eyes

by Ananya S. Guha / July 17th, 2016

In Kashmir
a young girl,
fourteen stood
staring out of
the window,
in dismay perhaps
of seeing uniformed
men only around,
surround
was greeted by bullets
the newspaper reports
they could save her life
not her eyes, two eyes
do not matter hand them
over on a platter for dissection
and minute inspection
and let these array of pellets
hound us into life
without eyes.

Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India, where he was born and brought up. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last forty years. His poetry has been published in both electronic and print formats such as: Indian Literature, Other Voices, Osprey Journal, Glasgow Review, The Literary Nest, Up The Staircase, Asia Writes, Art Arena, Praxis Online, Muse India, Your One Phone Call, In Between Hangovers, The Peeking Cat Magazine, Post Colonial Text among others. He has also written widely on educational and social matters. He has ten collections of poetry and his poetry has been anthologized in various collections of Indian poetry in English. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding. Read other articles by Ananya S..

This article was posted on Sunday, July 17th, 2016 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.