Sunday, November 1, 2020

India - I

 What is the idea of India?

My friend, have you wondered

Ever, where your India lies?

Does it lie where you give in to lies?

Or does it rest along the fault lines,

Of a few fractured, visionary minds?

Where does it look for water

When thirst overpowers it for decades?

Have you ever wondered whether

The desert in the West has spread

To the heart, polarized in a quest

To paint an Oasis, above a mirage?

Away from the mysteries of words

Away from novelists, and poets,

Where summer and rain bless the shades,

Into that silent light of freedom, 

May my country awake.

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