<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life-force</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">once again the earth <br>stealthily gnawed at her own margins <br>entombing gods and humans alike. <br>freezing all human activity <br>in its innocent sleep </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the buried gods <br>from the earth below <br>bear witness to <br>frozen petrified children <br>still at their study… <br>panting parents <br>under the dead weight <br>of their young ones… <br>a just fed infant alive <br>with a mouthful of milk <br>in the arms of a mother dead… <br>a life entrapped for thirteen days <br>with its breath still intact… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the debris of several limbs <br>under the rubble of once <br>a make believe world <br>and <br>piles of decaying bodies <br>impatiently await <br>a mass burial <br>as bulldozers devise <br>bizarre beds <br>for the dead amid the rubble… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">overwhelmed and stunned <br>the sorrow of the world <br>erased its boundaries <br>to find one another <br>once again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*(A RE-POST IN SYMPATHY WITH THE QUAKE VICTIMS OF IINDONESIA. this is written after an earthquake in iran a couple of years ago. it's published by postcolonial discourse, an online literary journal from canada)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Indira+Babbellapati">Indira Babbellapati</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411247" data-title="Life-force de Indira Babbellapati" data-description="once again the earth stealthily gnawed at her own margins entombing gods and humans alike. freezing all human activity in its innocent sleep the buried gods from the earth below bear witness to frozen petrified children still at their st..."></div> </div> </div>

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