Dixit K. C. is a writer from Nepal currently living in Finland. In poetry, he finds a way of expressing some reflections about life, death and the memories that remain through time and space. His poem “Sky At War” describes the horrors of conflict through the eyes of the innocent.
SKY AT WAR
I used to love the sky above
It used to rain on me
And I used to enjoy
every drop of it.
Naughty!
It also used to steal my balloons
Inflated those would fly
higher into its arms.
But not anymore.
Now it rains death,
bombs my town,
shatters my home.
It steals my loved ones,
robs their souls,
leaves me an orphan.
I have now dropped the idea of
fetching my balloons back
Rather than wings,
I now wish to grow fins
to swim away to life
far from the sinned sky
above me.
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