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. He has been writing and publishing poetry for the last thirty years, and his poetry has appeared in numerous online publications. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding and currently is a senior academic in India's Indira Gandhi National Open University. Read other articles by Ananya S..

This article was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.