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Pen Your Pain

By Pooja Jain


Scribble, doodle, write your heart out

Scratch the paper with your sorrow,

Decorate it with your love,

Color it with your anger.


Why must we turn to guns to end injustices?

Who will hear when people are dying?


Pick up the mighty pen,

Scribble, doodle,

Write your heart out.


Let the world listen

Give someone a chance to read,

And write back to you.








 

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