Poem - War Took My Doll

Tanvir Mostafa is a poet, writer, and educator from Dhaka, Bangladesh. With a background in English Literature and training in pedagogy, his heartfelt poems blend lyrical beauty with emotional truth. Inspired by Wordsworth, Keats, Tagore, and Nazrul, he writes to stir empathy and give voice to the unspoken.

 

War Took My Doll

War arrived quickly, loud in the night.
It took my sleep, and killed the light.
My doll is gone, my home is dust.
My family is lost—in hope I trust.
Now I just sit and quietly cry—
Why must kids suffer and die?

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*Collected from the poet by Md Ejaj Ahamed*