I Have Voiced It Now…

by Ananya S. Guha / July 20th, 2025

I have voiced it now
Everything, love, loneliness
Only death eludes
Stands in a corner
Lugubrious, but in sands
Of time it has ensnared
Men, women and children
In fascism and war
Why am I not in it?
It would be fantastic
To be around with gunshots,
Bombs and missiles, proudly
Proclaim, Am in a war
That’s the rat race
Garland of guns hung in my neck
I have voiced it now, hackneyed philosophies
And pontificating professors, I have chosen
War and rejected epistemology
I have chosen death over life
But it eludes me , because I am
Spellbound by it like a haunting cataract
Like a day time lover
And a mistress at night
Come war, let’s dance
My dull opiate
My estranged mistress
Let’s dance to death
To make self knowledge
That wee bit exciting
Not out of abstruse proclamation
Do I make this poem still born
Hidden humanity
I have voiced it now
I will voice it
Again & Again

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 20th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.