The Silence Beyond Eden

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The Silence Beyond Eden  The sky, dust-laden, wears the stains of ash, while restless souls gather pearls of eternity, yet their hunger remains unsatiated. Frontiers bleed, dreams crumble into ruins, and nameless children inherit an unknown Eden's ashes. Once, your footsteps consecrated the earth, your breath sanctified the wandering winds. Now, iron and fire dictate the fate of spring. Who taught the flowers to fear their blossoming? Perhaps the giants still play their ancient game, moving kingdoms across the chessboard of the earth, while pawns of flesh and blood vanish beneath their shadows. And you remain silent, beyond the ruins of paradise. Is your silence the final mystery of creation, or the permission through which the giants reign?

Celestial Love


 Celestial Love

Kaela Polkinghorn,

ten years old,

sat beneath a manufactured night

inside Museum of Science and Industry.

Above her,

the universe rehearsed itself—

eight bright bodies

circling their radiant center

in a choreography of belonging.

But Pluto

lingered beyond the music,

a dim note

fallen out of harmony,

exiled to the cold margins

of the Kuiper Belt.

No one spoke

of the verdict

of the International Astronomical Union—

how definitions can unmake a world,

how belonging can be measured

and denied.

She knew nothing of that.

She only saw

a loneliness

vast as space.

So she gathered small hands

into a quiet rebellion

and wrote to NASA—

a child’s plea

stitched with starlight:

Let it come back.

And somewhere

between science and mercy,

an answer arrived.

And her universe

felt whole again.

By Goutam Roy 

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