Prateek joined in the revolution of words, “This is not a poem, but a prayer, a prayer that comes deep from my heart for all the men in this world.”
“May men know how to bow to the softness within them and around them.
May men understand that protection doesn’t mean possession.
May men learn that they are mere pawns in the game of life, not Gods..
May men learn how to make peace with losing.
May men learn that the power is not in the ‘image’ they carry, but in the way they use that power for loving and serving.
May men learn to kill demons in their silence, instead of birthing more of them.
May men learn that peace and victory are in ‘true living’ and not a ‘false sense’ of conquering.
May men not hesitate and bravely, say it out loud, multiple times—‘I fucked up’
This is my truest prayer and my truest devotion to the sacredness of life, to the sacredness of being a man…”
This is an excerpt from Choicehood, my forthcoming novel.
— Deboshree Ghosh
