Voicing rage

For the third session focused on Amrita Pritam’s ‘Not Today’. Through this poem we looked at anger, rage and resistance. Participants wrote their own responses by travelling to their own internal ‘Nilchander Valley’.

Raging louder

by Joao Godinho

I still can't hear it, but I know it's there,  
growing and growling,  
drawing plans and escape routes.

I want to open the gates so it may infect,  
arrest, stir, but it's not time yet.

The pressure has to rise,  
the reasons have to pile,  
so when the time comes  
all excuses are neutered.

From now on,  
I'm raging louder.  
Silence is loud again.