Emerging From Searing Flames

Lines drawn across lives on earth bare,

Marching thro' dwellings without care.

A nation large into two split,

Shattered pieces thro' knives slit.

Lines marked on a map in ink,

Run deep in a gorge to a sanguine sink.

Hearts bled in rivulets red,

Painful anguish into them shed.

Rendered homeless in a trice,

Very souls splintered in a testy price.

Shorn of all that was held dear,

buffeted by kins' hate sear.

A loss so heavy, tugs,

On the nation's conscience plugged.

Borders burned into lines singed,

Blackened in sooty reflections cringed.

Eons coursing through winds of change,

Healing wisps across the snowy range.

Twin nations emerge plumes aflame,

Phoenix from ashes of shame.

Arising into a glory awake,

A leap gigantic through trials shake.

Pain into strength metamorphosized,

Despair in sorrow's boat capsized.

Narratives in gold etched hoary,

Of resilience rare chronicled in history.

© SRILAKSHMI ADHYAPAK

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Srilakshmi Adhyapak has been composing poetry since her early teens.

Poems are a way of rejuvenating her mind when amid long chores.

She composes poems during leisure time and pursues it as a hobby.

She derives inspiration from nature and certain significant events.

Most of her poems speak about the celebration of life and nature.

Srilakshmi has rendered the Ramayana into poems. Her latest book,

'The Song Divine' is the Bhagavad Gita rendered into poems.