Mercy
Sun-ribbed days, grey strips shuffling through kindness, dissolve into night's darkness.
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From ULR
Issue 8 – Kindness
Step Across
A powerful urging to confront oppression, transcend division, and bravely step into a just future
December 15, 2022
Pause. Reflect.
Raise your gaze
Neither to her hijab
Nor to her open hair
But to where stands.
The oppressor.
And then…
Step across
To where there is justice,
To a day better than this.
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PART OF A COLLECTIONMercy and 5 other poems
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Danish Hussain
Danish Husain is an actor, storyteller, poet, and a theatre director. He was instrumental in reviving the lost art form of Urdu storytelling, Dastangoi, which he later extended into a multilingual storytelling platform called Qissebaazi. He lives in Mumbai and runs his theatre company The Hoshruba Repertory.