Inner School Poem Competition on "Youth Against Landmines"
(1 March 2003)

Organized by "Youth for Peace" NCBL

Second

" Youths Against Landmines"

Lo and behold ! I see a grave being dug up for someone, 
Stony hearths set to cremate someone on he pyre.  
I hear not the manlyness in the Landmines,  
But the dreadful snarls of he death of the poor,  
I hear the contempt and condemnation towards it,  
From the terrified and painsticker hearts of the infants, youths and olds,   
The living lives of the man of the world,  
Have bean buried in these mines,  
But lo I behold,  
The trembling hands of the youths,  
The terror of the hearts quickening,  
The glimpse of brotherhood, 

I find myself,  
caught in the noose of this very landmines,  
The whole world embodies in skepticism.  
But in the eyes of the youths  
Suffused with tears  
Which dream about the funeral procession of death the dream of the procession of landmines,  
Merely the dreams.  

Hence the voice of the youths is reverberating
A few, hopeful hands are rising,
From land of the dead and landmines,
By driving away from the pathetic screams and wailings of the accursed wars,  
The able youths of today,  
Are grunting with the desire,  
To apply the ointment for the bodies,  
Shattered in the Landmines.  


Hence, for the conversion of the beautiful creation,  
Out of the dreams into awareness,  
The resisting forces are emerging,  
Against the RDX,  
Not with standing the death,  
But hands are united with living smiles,  
For seeking the bright future in terror stricken world,  
Out side the tunnel.  
Hey! the Leaders of the Landmines,  
The youths are out in the rush against you.

Name: Lorina Sthapit
Class : 9 

School : Holy Land  International School

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