1. Cosmic Consciousness - Brian Walker
2. The Great Pyramid of Cheops - Brian Walker
3. The Universal Mind at Large - Brian Walker
4. food for thought - Daya Dissanayake
5. Stratos - Nirmal Kirtisinghe
6. Tsunami writings by students at Kalmunai - Jameela Hanoon Umar
7. Time - Ansari Wahabdeen
8. The queen of the night - Hemakumar Nanayakkara
9. A Venetian Evening - Hemakumar Nanayakkara
10. The Universe - Ansari Wahabdeen

by Aashika Sulaiman Ahamat

I never searched

But I found

I never wanted

but I got

I never lost

But I'm wounded

I can't run away from the present into the past

I can't escape what comes to me in the future

My dreams are just a little heavier today

Because you are not there anymore to share them with me

A crazy world it is and I have no choice but to swing on...

Hoping that you'll come back and find me

And take me back... imperfect as I am

Is it too much to dream for?

Don't leave me with these tears

For I can't cry any more

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