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?

Who were they?


 Who Were They?


Who were they

who vanished into time,

leaving no echo—

no trace of breath

from seven millennia past?

Only silent bones remain,

half-buried

in the dreaming sands

of the Sahara.

Were they like us—

or shaped from some

forgotten design

of the human spirit?

They were

of an unknown lineage,

belonging to the Green Sahara—

a world once alive,

where rivers spoke

and grasses carried the wind.

They witnessed

the slow unfolding of humankind:

the first journeys,

the hunger of the hunt,

the birth of dwelling and name.

Yet their own story

faded without witness—

their lands emptied,

their voices dissolved

into the vastness of time.

And now—

only the desert remembers.

By  Goutam Roy 

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