30 March 2025

Identifying Hope

When a postman 
Comes in search of an
Address in a war torn
City.

All the Houses grazed
To dust.. Still able 
To find that bombed
House..

Who's the refugee here?
The bodies?
The postman?
The letter? The sender?

Or the flower that's 
Trying to grow battling 
The hopeless silence 
In the rubble?

He keeps the letter 
Under the shadow of
The flower and
Returns.

What better way to
Take cognizance of
A life than delivering 
A letter?

To seek hope when
There's none.
Even if it's ridiculously 
Symbolic..

That act outweighs
Hope itself. Life itself.
The war itself.