The Burning Baby

January 25, 2021

The Burning Baby

Twenty days;

That’s how old I am.

I am lying here on a hotbed,

Alone.

Burning to ashes;

While my mother at home

Is still hoping,

That I would return home

And cry again!

Farweez Imamudeen

Farweez Imamudeen is the Director of Speak - an academy designed to help school children transform their personalities. He is also a freelance writer from Sri Lanka whose articles have appeared in Groundviews, Colombo Telegraph and Vidivelli.

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