Winner (Poem) - October, 2025
Forward March (3rd Position- 9th International Writing Competition) by Merub Sheikh - Pakistan
Some days it is harder to get out of bed.
Some days an invisible hand guides me
up out of bed
to the shower
and back again.
But I make the bed,
warm up leftovers,
and watch what is left of my childhood
on an old rickety bulky laptop
that sighs each time it must open,
as though it too did not think it could rise once more,
that it could not fight the dust that threatens to gather on it.
I take it day by day.
A hard pill to swallow; a necessary means
to a necessary life...
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