A Planet Without Punishment ( Christina Sunrise )

To be punished we need to feel ashamed

we are in a losing battle of Victim against Judge every day.

Now what if the Planetary Dream was changed?

What if we never had to be punished and made to feel ashamed?

Guilt and shame are not normal feelings we have

these two things are forced on us to make us feel bad.

Now over in India they have a philosophy

it helps teach children to freely express

to feel joyful, sad and happiness.

They are never heard the word 'NO'

they are treated like Kings and Queens

and nurtured as they grow.

Now what if we lived in a world with High Self Esteem?

It was the norm and nothing in between or very extreme?

We would then have a new Planetary Dream

where there is no punishment, no prisons, cops and

people dying from a killing machine.

By

( Christina Sunrise )

The Guilt ( Flowers in Sojourn )

I know not the pace of swaying clouds on turquoise sky, 

Standing solitary on the molten glacier heaved high

With the icy surround of anguish and anxiety,

For devastating the result of a birth in bygone proximity.

Ancient, anonymous and alone is my built,

Bearing on shoulders, the encumber of ageless guilt

O Deity of Sleep, invoke in the fire of prayer,

And draw your veil over the guilt and the slayer.

And sing a lullaby to calm my vision’s plight

For I have cursed my mirror image at every sight,

On drops of melting ice amidst ancient fear, chore gets behead ,

And the sleep gets hidden among the instincts dead.

Entrapped in this wide dismal antiquity,

To touch skies, swaying clouds refuse parity,

For the palms only fold in prayers to Heaven,

When it does not elevate with the guilt’s burden.

By

(Smita Dey Tarafder)