Survivor: A poem by Jayashree Bhattacherjee
Should I hide it? No, never, proudly shall I flaunt my scar To let the world know the tale of my resilience, I’m a survivor...
Should I hide it? No, never, proudly shall I flaunt my scar To let the world know the tale of my resilience, I’m a survivor...
Hope, Emily says, is the thing with feathers How true! If not for hope would there be life!? At every turn the Earth takes, at...
Hope, Emily says, is the thing with feathers How true! If not for hope would there be life!? At every turn the Earth takes, at...
I witnessed her struggles to exist fighting with all her life, to live. I lived through all her struggles cos we were in it together....
I witnessed her struggles to exist fighting with all her life, to live. I lived through all her struggles cos we were in it together....
Jhulia listlessly stared out of the window of her room, watching her 3-year-old daughter, Nimmi, playing with the children of her co-workers on the dingy...
Jhulia listlessly stared out of the window of her room, watching her 3-year-old daughter, Nimmi, playing with the children of her co-workers on the dingy...
Perched on a raging tortuous inferno she cried out in fear and pain Hell broke loose on her, conceding life, she shed tears in vain...
Perched on a raging tortuous inferno she cried out in fear and pain Hell broke loose on her, conceding life, she shed tears in vain...
That night when all seemed amiss and the thunder rumbled,Its ugly head raised like an adder’s in the sky,Two scared eyes from under the duvets...
That night when all seemed amiss and the thunder rumbled,Its ugly head raised like an adder’s in the sky,Two scared eyes from under the duvets...
The night when dense dark turbulent cloudsGhoulishly ferocious, toweredIntimidated, n’ all seemed to go astrayLife exuberant seemed lost to the demons of my past.Sky overcast...