Sometimes a smile, sometimes pain’s gentle hold.
At times it seems we understand it all,
and then a moment comes that changes the whole.
The heart learns, unlearns, and learns once more,
every wound writes a verse upon the soul’s core.
In the journey of the spirit, each sorrow’s a guest,
it arrives, teaches, and departs to let us rest.
We keep chasing distant goals in vain,
yet peace is found in silence again —
in the sunrise glow, in a prayer’s grace,
in the hush of words we never face.
Don’t seek perfection — seek presence instead,
each moment’s a verse, each breath newly read.
Life only asks, in its softest hue:
“Tell me, are you truly feeling too?”
So feel — whether it’s pain or prayer,
live with love, breathe with care,
and let your soul’s smile fill the air.
For in the end, life isn’t counted by years,
but by the moments that quiet our fears —
those sacred instants, pure and true,
when the heart felt the presence of God in you.
Murtaza Ahmed (Janni)
Kalaban Mendhar
Generational Echoes, Personal Lens!
I remember when I was a child,
How people around me built myths,
Now I refuse to believe,
They said, “Silence is a woman’s jewel,
A man is born with thunder in their throats, calm is not meant for them, though.”
They believed a woman must wear white to be worthy,
A man must wear steel to be strong.
Women used to be bound by household chores,
While men gathered in easy glory,
Plates gleaming before them,
They see dowry as a ‘divine right,’
And a man who refuses it, as a ‘traitor to his kind.’
The women smiled, satisfied, it seemed,
As if that were enough….
They said, “Dear, this is balance.”
But I said, “It’s only fear wearing a mask and nothing else.”
But time moved on, and something in me cracked open,
And when I dared to speak, to the question, the ‘so – called tradition,’
They call it rebellion,
While I call it breathing.
At last, choose what is just and truly right,
Not the scripts, they have designed….
Bhumika Lakhotra
College Student
If someone hurts you
If someone hurts you
Don’t reply
Trust
God will answer
The way he likes
If someone hurts you
Don’t reply
Because an eye for an eye
Can make the world blind
If someone hurts you
Again and again
Don’t wear that agony and pain
Remain away from poisonous snakes
Life is precious
And is vulnerable too
It has its own way of living
Let’s leave it the way
It meets us.
Kiran Kanchan
Machhlian Domana
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