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?

The Poison Elixir


 The Poison Elixir 

An empty sky

holds the full moon—

a loaf of silver

beyond the reach

of the hungry.

Below,

restless minds

drink from a darker sea,

where every wave

promises forgetting.

At the threshold,

a mother keeps a lamp awake.

A father counts the hours,

listening for footsteps

the night refuses to return.

Day after day,

the body becomes

a silent battlefield—

disease entering softly,

laying its patient road

toward an unnamed dawn.

Beyond the shadows,

the merchants arrive

with their glittering bottles,

casting wider nets

across empty pockets,

broken dreams,

and minds already

heavy with winter.

The mothers

hide their tears

behind closed doors.

The fathers

wait for a mercy

that has forgotten their address.

And somewhere

inside the sleepless dark,

a wounded voice rises—

thin as a dying star—

then disappears

before the world

can hear it.

By Goutam Roy 

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