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No pain is greater than grief, 

As death itself has lost its heart

In full incomprehension. 

There is no memory worse

Than any memorial attended. 

The urge to not believe

Is a disbelief 

Atrociously painted

In the agony. 

It is a cycle that destroys

The vision to lament 

Or cry to a grave

Because life beyond

Mortality is locked

In a coffin for perpetuity.

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Alshaad Kara is a Mauritian poet who writes from his heart. He won the 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup” Literary Award Third Prize. His latest poems were published in “The Social Rhyme”, “Spered Gouez”, “Caractère” and “Coin-Operated Press” and “Slamming Bricks Anthology 3rd Edition”.