Amitabh Vikram - Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
Broken-Mirrors

by Amitabh Vikram

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Butterflies in my garden-yellow, pink and grey
Used to flutter about in a wintry sunny day
A ray of hope used to touch their colorful hue
Spreading joy and a brightness new
In my eyes I used to see a new zest
In a divided humanity in the heaven’s nest
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Now they fight for black and white on their sides
And a piece of land for that only death will chide
But they slaughter each other, and they cry
Till madness evaporates and blood turns dry
Heaven became hell’s gate, and deaths now play
Flies flutter around today- yellow, pink and grey
 Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi is an assistant professor of linguistics in the School of Languages and Literature at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research interests include language documentation, writing descriptive grammars, and the preservation of rare and endangered languages in South Asia. He has contributed articles to many English journals.