Glory Sasikala: Poetry (Voices Within 2021)

Glory Sasikala is a writer, poet and publisher from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Editor and Publisher of GloMag, the international monthly online poetry and prose magazine, and is administrator of the group of the same name on Facebook. She is the creator of ‘The Chennai Ladies’ series of E-books on Amazon.com. She has recently published her third novel, ‘My Life My Script’.

COME TO THE TABLE

So much would be resolved

If we would just Come To The Table

sit across and discuss

without anger but with understanding

of what it’s like to be in the other’s shoe

instead of bickering

slandering, slaying, smearing, and sullying

from afar.

Maybe it’s easier to bicker 

slander, slay, smear and sully

from afar

than to Come To The Table and

sit across and talk?

To just ask why this happened?

To just see if we can work things out?

To arrive at a consensus

With faith that things will fall in place?

But Dear Rulers,

You won’t Come To The Table, will you?

Because that’s not what you want...

IS IT TIME TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING CHRISTIAN?

Religion! That’s a dirty word

It separates the world

It’s for fools!

It’s phoney!

Religion causes wars

Religion creates hate

Abandon religion

Don't look up to the skies

It’s all here. It’s in you. It’s in how you live.

A girl makes her way to the convent

“Say your prayers,” says Mother Helen.

“Our Father who art in Heaven…

Confess your sins

I believe in God the Father...”

Outside,

the storm came

and blew the world away.

The girl knelt in her quiet haven and prayed

“Our Father who art in Heaven...”

OUTSIDE THE LINES

I color outside the line

pinks and blues, browns and reds

greens and whites and yellows.

Your staid mind

would like to color too

but within.

Outside the line

are the blue sky, the rainbow

the flowers, birds and trees

in rare un-precision.

Outside are the birds too

flying everywhere!

Outside are daring thoughts and

willingness to explore

where your within lines dare not.

Outside 

flowers fly and butterflies bloom, and

it doesn’t take rains to make a rainbow.

While you test the waters to see

if you dare step

outside the line

I have flown

to another world!

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