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    Wonder Cage

    Ankita Islam

    • PUBLISHED IN: YEAR 8, ISSUE 15-16/ AUTUMN EDITION 2020/ CREATIVE WRITING (POEM)
    • PAGE RANGE: 99.
    • PUBLICATION DATE: 23 DECEMBER 2020.
    • COPYRIGHT: © 2020 BY THE AUTHOR/S.

     

    Wonder Cage © 2020 by Ankita Islam is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

    Again, a sleepless night

    searching for a dark patch

    outside and inside of my window.

    The clock shows, 3 am

    Although

    The night comes with her moon and stars above,

    But

    An artificiality of science breakdown its ownness

    I was, I am, I will

    Wander!

    How they sleep

    at the night which pretended to be a day

    I eagerly wanted to go back

    I wanted to hear birds quarrel

    I wanted to walk on dews

    I wanted to sleep in the dark patch of the night

    But

    My stomach's requirement

    Put me in invisible bars

    with no rules, no boundaries

    yet in a cage

    where tears learn how to smile

    Hands and feet work as machine

    In The City of Joy!  

    Ankita Islam, B. A.(Hons.) and M.A., Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

     

    MLA Citation:

     

    Islam, Ankita. "Wonder Cage." Thespian Magazine, yr. 8, issue 15-16, 23 December 2020, p. 99.