Sunday, November 1, 2020

India - III

Where love isn't milked, but reared

And blood, not shed but shared 


Where the dark is met with calm, not fear

And light isn't chained to far-away spheres


Where trust resides in what one hears

And why one writes becomes crystal clear


When sleep returns to children everywhere

And mothers regain what they lost in the war


Where poets can live in a peasant's gear

And music accepts to reside between the ears


Into that serene epoch

May my country arise.

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