O, countrymen
O countrymen, where are you?
Wake up from long sleep and see through
The reason behind such a plight
When you had suffered in dark night
Why have you all turned “Kumbhkarna”*?
Is that due to flaw in system or lacuna?
I do not blame you as time is not ripe yet
We still have to face lot more and suffer the fate
Why your blood is still calm and not boiling?
Why are we allowing them free hand to spoil?
In past we witnessed long line of human chain
Today we find misery and deception with pain
Are you still averse to the present system?
Where two time meals a day is not concerning them
Tons of food grain rot in open and go as waste
We are still sleeping and enduring the test
Bread and butter may become extinct names for poor
Ordinary food items may become beyond reach to each door
Death bodies may become costlier to burn or bury
Fire woods have become rare and causes so much worry
We all live under the compulsion of survival
Unless there is some new system's arrival
Not all may have means to counter nepotism
We are all meant to suffer in the name of humanism
We need some one to rise as our savior
Bring the flood in river after melting glacier
Stand fast against the atrocities and crimes
Care for only bright sun to emerge and shine
Can there not be one messiah from you?
Who can sacrifice for million to seek truth
Take us all to the order of peace and happiness
Where poor and rich all can have shine on face
*Kumbhkarna… The legend person in epic who used to sleep for months together
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Submitted on May 13, 2013
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,474 |
Words | 289 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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