Waging A War Of Words

by Ananya S. Guha / July 17th, 2022

The mosque and the temple
we wake up one morning
to see their difference
and history is no thing of past
we drag it to the present
it looks bedraggled
the mosque and the temple
are so very different
so why bury differences?
suddenly we are bereft of words
we symbolise hidden myths
and dry artefacts, we who are a nation
of varying strands, labyrinths of history
the temple and the mosque replicate
waging a war of words.

Deaths do not matter.

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, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.