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How Fragile We Are

A Meditation on Violence and the Shadows Left Behind

By Zakir UllahPublished about a year ago • 1 min read

If blood will flow

When flesh and steel are one

Drying in the color of the evening sun

Tomorrows rain

Will wash the stains away

But something

In our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant

To clinch a lifetime argument

That nothing comes from violence

And nothing ever could

For all those born

Beneath an angry star

Lest we forget

How fragile we are

On and on

The rain will fall

Like tears from a star

On and on

The rain will say

How fragile we are

Fragile.....

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    Written by Zakir Ullah