—Sunil Sharma
So—
Let us then all stand for peace fragile, yet strong
And give it another chance!
Says an e-mail from the city of Ramallah,
Yes, we must—
Writes another youth from Tel Aviv.
Let there be no Auschwitzs in future
Or, barbed wires across God-created lands,
A youth writes from Sarajevo,
Hatred leads nowhere.
What train blasts have achieved?
Asks a kid from terror-ravaged Mumbai.
Nothing,
Except the ugly face of distorted hate,
Says Hamid from pock-marked bare Kabul,
It comes back to kill
Like a demented man in Karachi.
The ethnic hatreds
Will never achieve—
The goals of the deadly merchants of death.
There will be always—
War-mongers and warlords,
And
Ordinary peace-loving folks,
Arranged against the other
In unjust societies.
We will not let them ride—
These few war-dogs,
We will prevail,
Simply because—
We are the millions of people
Craving peace and security
In an already-battered world
Suffering from climate change
Mass hunger
Poverty
And
Immense greed.
Bombs
Can kill the body
But not the spirit
Of pure Peace.
So—
Let us unite, then
And make it
The latest credo
For the new century
Of hope and belief
And trash the forces
Of skepticism,
Cynicism
And disbelief
Via this simple anthem
Of love and faith.
Powerful,allusive verse that embraces man-made global tragedies and suffering.
A powerful cri-de-coeur fashioned in that poetic fervour which is ever the hallmark of this Author’s exemplary works .
Well-captured and nuanced as well.
Thanks Vijay, Louis and Gopal for encouragement sweet!
Ennobling thoughts versified by the Doyen among the contemporaries … Awesome !
Thanks a lot dear Kumaara for your kind words.
potent with the message of love in a hate ravaged world . Hats off for this very significant verse.