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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #161

Welcome back to light!

PROMPT #161

We celebrate Diwali – the festival of lights in India, while America celebrates a new President.

Light can mean different things to different people, just like the election results in any country.

James Baldwin says,

One discovers the light in the darkness,
 that is what darkness is for;
 but everything in our lives depends
 on how we bear the light.
 It is necessary, while in darkness,
 to know that there is a light somewhere,
 to know that in oneself,
 waiting to be found, there is a light.
 What the light reveals is danger,
and what it demands is faith.

I invite you to meditate on light this week, and share your take on the subject.

The piece you generate can be fiction, poetry…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #160-

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #160

PROMPT #160

I give you a situation this week.

You go down in a lift that doesn’t stop for hours. When it finally opens, what do you see?

HELLUCINATIONS?

We,

the law-abiding
justice-seekers, call us fools or whatever…
Crammed in a lift going down. It may take hours we are informed. We don’t mind if it takes months or years, so long the door opens to the justice we are seeking.

Though at present things are looking grim as always we can’t afford to lose hope we, the die-hard optimists are prepared for the worst but hope for the best
Finally the lift stops.

The door opens,

‘Welcome to the fool’s paradise’

we are cheered by

the skeletons of the previous justice seekers.

Am I hallucinating?

Friday Fictioneers is hosted by the wonderful Rochelle, the undisputed master of what I call Sound Bite Fiction.
She sets the weekly challenge, the standard, and the prompt photo.
The idea, as always, is to write a story of around 100 words based on the picture below, which this week is supplied by Dale Rogerson.

Click here to hear the author read his words:

The Emperor’s New Clothes

the people have voted the message is clear
they tell him it’s time that he goes
the people have voted but one man can’t hear
the king sits in his palace without any clothes

the people have voted their decision is made
they are weary of the lies now exposed
his hubris once more is starkly displayed
the king sits in his palace without any clothes

the people have voted they’ve won a great prize
they applaud now the…

बैठे रहे हम घंटो तसव्वुर तेरा किए हुए
डूबते उबरते रहे तसव्वुर तेरा किए हुए

वक़्त-ए-वस्ल कुछ यूँ लगा नश्तर तेरा
तुझपे हम मरते रहे तसव्वुर तेरा किए हुए

कर दिया जो तूने कल मिलने का वादा
शब को सहर करते रहे तसव्वुर तेरा किए हुए

हुआ जो भी अब तक हमारे संग अच्छा बुरा
तेरे नज़र करते रहे तसव्वुर तेरा किए हुए

होती है दिल से दिल की राह “अमित”
तुझको खबर करते रहे तसव्वुर तेरा किए हुए

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 160