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any picture comes to my mind, i try to give it a body of words, love to sit on other blooms, for honey, color, fragrance........
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Father of My Nation
That non-violent heart of yours
Tasted three bullets
Served to you by your sons
I am Nirbhaya*
Born in the land of Buddha and you
They didn’t even spare me
My spirit won’t rest till you are reborn
BAPU JI**!
Thou shouldst be living at this hour:
Bharat*** hath
need of thee
*Nirbhaya means fearless (girl). India does not allow publicizing a rape
victim’s name so the 23 year old girl who was gang raped and brutally assaulted
in New Delhi in 2012 and later succumbed to the injuries was given the name
Nirbhaya.
**Bapu ji is father in Hindi. Mahatma Gandhi was fondly called Bapu ji by the
people of India.
***India is ‘Bharat’ in all the Indian languages.
The last two lines are taken from William Wordsworth’s poem London,1802 only I used the word Bharat instead of England.
Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Fathers@ Poets United
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