two countries of same colors
split
and over years
the burden of sketched borders
fenced wires
torn jannat
became so heavy
we needed our division justified
we needed our partition glorified
so we play the pretend game now
we go to war
we ask for each other’s heads
we bleed our soldiers
and then we ask for proof
Bio
Vaishali Paliwal is an artist working on finding an expression to ‘the ultimate experiment’. Sometimes she does this with words. She aspires to build, break and rebuild all that art is to her. Currently she resides in Los Angeles where she works on her spiritual practice and writes poetry and short stories from her other worlds. Her poetry chapbook ‘Lion’s Tooth On Migrating Chests’ was recently published by The Soap Box Press. Some of her other published writing is in Gone Lawn, Platform Review, Genre Urban Arts, Peeking Cat, Eunoia review, Somnia Blue and Thirty West Publishing house. You can reach her at paliwalvaishali@gmail.com.
