Peace

I heard her name in the mouth of a politician,

But saw her helpless seeking a place of opinion,

Where on each can she actually settle?

Far from the violence and ever-existing battle.

She went to a soldier chief and asked,

Why everyone fought with their face masked?

Behind the strong walls of love and humanity,

They had a shoveling doors of hate and enmity.

Once she went to a curfew in the town,

Thought she had finally found a place to settle down,

Then soon she heard a heart pounding loud,

Had a communal killing between the poor and proud.

Wherever she goes she finds war and blood,

She prays and pleads the Almighty God,

Hoped she found a settlement in the man's lovely heart,

Not in the poison of a beautiful frog-dart.

By Faiz Azam Saba

Class 10

3rd Prize Winner