Wars Don’t End; Peace Does
by Ananya S. Guha / September 13th, 2026
With war a civilisation ends
Children bleed
Women torn apart
And men lead wars
Wars don’t happen
They plan, they hunt for victims
Wars don’t end, they begin
An onslaught against blue skies
The peace around streams
And rivulets
Wars go on, peace doesn’t
Peace ends in disaster
In its name wars are fought
Wars are taught
To endure
While peace remains catastrophic
In Palestine, Ukraine or Iran
In skies with streaks of red
War creates poets dreamers of peace
Dreamers of love, Rupert Brooke and company, but now there is no trench warfare
War can be planned sitting hundreds of miles
In well furnished rooms, measuring precision
Of missiles
Thank god soldiers are spared of some trouble
Only guarding borders, tossing peace in the air, waiting for truce to appear
Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India, where he was born and brought up. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last forty years. His poetry has been published in both electronic and print formats such as: Indian Literature, Other Voices, Osprey Journal, Glasgow Review, The Literary Nest, Up The Staircase, Asia Writes, Art Arena, Praxis Online, Muse India, Your One Phone Call, In Between Hangovers, The Peeking Cat Magazine, Post Colonial Text among others. He has also written widely on educational and social matters. He has ten collections of poetry and his poetry has been anthologized in various collections of Indian poetry in English. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding.
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This article was posted on Sunday, September 13th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
