When Bonds Break and Spacetime Bleeds

Randhir Thiyam

In Manipur, the bonds have come undone,
Once covalent with trust, now torn apart.

Old lattices of kinship start to run,
To entropy, decay at nature’s heart.

The social solvent boils with heat and fear,
Activation energy supplied by hate.

Small sparks collide like particles too near,
Turning homes to ash, their half-lives sealed by fate.

Fields warp like spacetime under cries of pain,
Where children bend beneath a crimson sky.

No law now stands invariant to the strain,
As symmetry of justice passes by.

O heal this land—let catalysts be peace,
Till balanced lives emerge, and reactions cease.