SANGEETA GUPTA, INDIA (Peace Poem)

Sangeeta Gupta

‘Make peace' with yourself

We cannot go back in time

and undo or do things

to end our suffering 

we can only look back

with compassion

and accept all that happened

good, bad and ugly.

It is not possible

to dig your wounds

and act differently one more time

just one more time

to set it right for once

we have to move on with our lives

we can forgive each other

we can forgive ourselves

we can stop beating

ourselves forever. 

We can learn to make

peace with our past

and live in here and now

we are not sure

of our next breath

why look back and

replay the old drama again

and yet again

move on, move on, move on

that is the only way.

FOUNDATION OF PEACE

Love is

the foundation of peace

When there is love

in the hearts

there is tranquility

not blood and killing

let there be

millions of guards

on the borders

soul will meet

the soul anyway

there are more verses

than bullets

don't spend yourself

in ruining oneself

or ruining others

come lets write

stories of life

word by word

verse by verse

forget bitterness

lets open all doors

once again

for love.

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Sangeeta Gupta is a film maker, artist and a poet. She is a Delhi based bilingual poet with 25 published books to her credit; it includes a collection of short stories and 14 anthologies of poems in Hindi. Ten of her books of poems are translated in German, Greek, Mandarin, English, Bangla, Dogri, Tamil and Urdu. She also has held 36 solo exhibitions of her paintings and has directed, shot and scripted 30 documentary films, seven of them are in the collection of Library of Congress, Washington.

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Setu, September 2023 :: Peace Poem