IN ANOTHER’S SHOES

I forced myself

To travel roads

Unknown to me

To hear the howls

Of broken destiny

I chose to write

In this alien voice

To speak out

To explain the why

Now upon inked pages

It is all spilled

That pain, the twisted limbs

Of history that maimed

Lie bleeding across pages

Charred by words burning holes

Leaving me here

Stranded where I sought

To be—

In no-man’s land—

Waiting to learn of peace

Holding my white flag

Of surrender