The Sleep Poem by Rathna nagaraja

Hi! hello! Listen!
Can you hear me?
Can you find my sleep?
I have lost it
In my academy degrees &
in competing for status

I have lost it
In the market
In its dazzling & sizzling
In Dashes, Pushes &pulls

I have lost it when
In my maiden dreams
When I left my mother's house
To become a mother

I have lost it when
In search of insight
Into the philosophical world
By reading by underlining
& in researching the underlying truth
Finding my position in it

I have lost it
In search of justice when
an infant is sexually abused
By agitating within me
The ways it takes turn. ….2



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I lost it when
In search of culprits
Having a deal in the nations
Arms and Ammunitions

I lost it
In search of almighty's silence
When Nature calamity harming
The human life.

(w.19-9-2014)