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Poetry

Vengeance

By

Prabhpreet

Prabhpreet writes from a prison in VIC.

An image taken from the ground, looking upward into the tree canopy.
Harrison Doust

Today I went down the solitary lane,

to seek revenge from who owe me pain.

What I saw was horrifying,

people gathered there too were crying.

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No one can find true happiness by letting the other down,

we all have to live here whether a common or a crown.

Either I have to ask or to me you,

clemency is the only answer to end the blue,

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nothing is lasting what to fight for,

every bit would remain here for sure,

one should just gather good deed,

for a healthy tree good should be the seed.

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These were the words said by the sorrowers,

we all once have to pay as we all are the borrowers.

Here I sit now quiet with a disheartened face,

I came to know we all are of same race,

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now you can only weep for what is forever gone,

this world is a cycle, dear, it goes on and on…

This
piece
was originally printed in the
October 2026
edition of About Time.
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