Maybe you are the collateral damage of someone's war against themselves.

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Burnt edges of innocent paper
are the collateral damage
of my simmering verse.

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I was the collateral damage in the battle between me and myself....

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You're just a prisoner of war
between your past and the present.

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Her beautiful brown eyes rain in pain,
I tell her, "Don't do this, Mama. It's in vain."
She breathes free for a second and wails,
One free second costs her a lifetime in jail.

I want to murder this girl in the mirror,
Get her framed and put a wreath of cactus.
Sins she has committed have eclipsed digits;
Demons like her need to be eliminated.

So what if she once was a harbinger of joy?
So what if she apologizes when they cry?
Past should never be accounted for present;
Her sorries are hollow, nothing they mend.

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Artistic value is realised,

Poverty mindset materialised

Spongers take as givers give,

Collateral damage prone to live

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ये भ्रम है या तुम्हारी
खुद केे मन को दी हुई तसल्ली||
पर तुम्हें इन बातों से फर्क नहीं पड़ेगा!!
क्योंकि इलज़ाम डालने केे लिए
कोई ना कोई तो चाहिए ना...

*तो ये लो मैं यहीं हूं*
😊😊

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No lab experiment
Neither a test subject
Not a parament
To be adorned or to be wrecked

I m also a living being
As valuable as ur non-living machines
Am tired of keep on fleeing
In terror of ur hearts so mean

I m no collateral damage
Not the one who should be affected by ur wreckage
I m a sentinent creature
With a right to live and be a dreamer

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Our government is changing history-
Not by ensuring justice or prosperity
But by editing one textbook chapter
out of the school syllabus at a time.

Boiled down to academic load,
front-line martyrs of curriculum cuts
The stories of our people are
nothing but collateral damage




"Policies of Nehru, anti-Sikh riots,
Ayodhya dispute, empowerment of women
and minority rights dropped from Class 12
syllabus of Assam state board"
reads the news today

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When the heart breaks, the mind also get affected
as collateral damage.

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