Life, hope & everything in between

This, and The world is burning down, there's a sense of doom, a gloomy smoke of fear circling life all around us. There's an eeriness in the silence that I hear, despite the din never having quietened. Doesn't death sound like this? Life moves on at one point, as life gives up at another. In one world, some fly away to safer havens, while others rot in the old. Some people shelter in hoarding this and that, some others lose homes, energy, hope and lie on their backs giving up. The world is burning down, while I write to you today, my love. I can still hope for a better tomorrow, if you're with me love.

Life, hope & everything in between

Published on May 8, 2021

Shivranjana Rathore

About

'Life, hope and everything in between' is a set of poems written through the month of April 2021, as we underwent a second wave of the pandemic. It has been a strange couple of years, and I have recently finished 30 years of life. I wrote my first book when I was 27 and published it two months shy of turning 28. It does feel like I have lived lifetimes between 27 and 30, an entire year of which has gone staying indoors. I have learnt and grown in many layers over the years, and I see that reflected in my writings in this book. The poems reflect the last year & the times we live in - when death was spoken of more than birth, when asking each other if we were okay meant a lot more than what culture was used to, when desperation, frustration, anger, grief, trauma were constant companions as much as the humanity or the lack of it in one and all. Find me at linktr.ee/shivranjana or @shivranjana on Instagram.

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