Urborn Apocalypse

Ankita Bose
Oct 1, 2023
Artwork by Ankita Bose

Once, the sun burst,
and with it flew dusts of hunger,
of dampened aspirations.

And it all ended,
like a full stop,
like a nihilist ball,
with no ice, with no stones.

Hydrogen igniting dreams,
spread over, no longer held together,
and the non-air breathing its last verses of sorrow.

Once, the earth toppled,
and the children cackled, giggled, laughed,
the rotating axis thwarted their success.

Oceans became beds of rocks,
thumping against the desires of power.

Mountains cried their pine leaves
to the last morsel of vegetation.

Then, we all jeered, cooed,
but the sun had already burst,
and the earth, toppled.

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Ankita Bose
Ankita Bose

Written by Ankita Bose

Ankita is a middle-class Bengali woman whose eyelids are painted with yet-to-be fulfilled dreams. An avowed reader, she only wants to learn and write in life.

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