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Sometimes I feel like writing by Junaid Ali Akbar

Sometimes I feel like writing

Junaid Ali Akbar

Sometimes I feel like writing...

Writing words that could shake the earth,

But how foolish of me to think,

That ink could stop the bloodshed.

Sometimes I feel like writing...

When I see the corpses of children,

Hanging from the rubble,

Their bodies too small for the weight of this world,

Crushed by the sins of those who never knew their names.

Sometimes I feel like writing...

When I see fathers cradling their babies' bodies,

Their hands trembling as they carry the weight of loss,

Bombs ripping apart their hearts and homes,

And I wonder, can my…

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