Praise Be the Absent

So… the god smiles, does he? Was it not enough? The children, the quiet graves, the red rivers? They say he is great. But great enough to ignore the blood? He still listens they say to hymns, to chants, to…

Unapologetically Nation

I wonder sometimes why I love the Nation I know it’s selfish, thinking of us, more than any other. I say it’s not love, but survival, where our heroes are spanned across the soil of legacy. I say it’s not…

The one without a flag

There was one without a flag walked barefoot, feeling the tremble in the earth long before the storm came. When the kings argued in marble halls, and the rebels shouted in cracked streets, this one sat beside the well where…

Inheritance of Contradiction

They forget they are their successors, yet never forget to criticize. They forgot to teach love but showed them how to divide. They forgot to teach ethics but never fail to speak against. They forgot to teach unity but never…