SNIGDHA AGRAWAL

Over A Piece Of Land

Another dawn
and the infamous ones
displace our thoughts
displace our homes
kicking us out
from the land we owned
We are all refugees
in this place
constantly redrawing
borders
being squeezed
milked
siphoned
and the scriptwriters
justify the changes
like shifting dunes
in deserts
who will empathize?
who will find a solution?
"biggies", "smallish"
or divine intervention
©Snigdha Agrawal
18th November 2023

Cries

A father's wail
is heard over
the mayhem
cradling his
only child
dead
Have you heard
the screams
of a pre-pubescent child
being raped?
her unformed womb
trampled
bleeding to death
Hunger, thirst, disease
killing innocents
And all for a piece
of land
neither here nor there
Does anyone care?
©Snigdha Agrawal
18th November 2023


Is The Glass Half Empty Or Half Full?

So,
the war goes on
So,
the atrocities carry on
with the constant feed
from power banks
fully charged
So
what, if the motives are wrong
So
what, if arm twisting is applied
to pressure others to join
promoting the wrong cause
And so,
like a glass, half full, half empty
riddles the mind
Complex
Irrational
but cannot be ignored
as human lives continue
to fall
Snigdha Agrawal
18th November 2023

SNIGDHA AGRAWAL (nee Banerjee) has an MBA in Marketing and Corporate work experience of over two decades. She enjoys writing all genres of poetry, prose, short stories, and travel diaries. Brought up in a cosmopolitan environment, and educated in Convent School/College run by Irish Nuns, she has imbibed the best from Eastern and Western cultures. She has published four books of poems and short stories.  The latest titled TRAIL MIX is a book of short stories, published in 2023 by Authorspress Publishing House and is available on Amazon. in.  This apart, she is widely published in domestic and international anthologies and poetry journals.  A septuagenarian, her passion for writing and travelling continues unabated.