The Red Glow of the Dawn
I have
just composed ‘The
Red Glow of the Dawn’, dedicating it to the Finance Minister, Sri Arun Jaitley,
and would like to offer this poem to him as a gift on the Eve of India’s 69th
Independence Day.
India needs a Krishna and his brave Parth again
Or a Chandra
Gupta with the big Kautilya-Brain
When the glassed-in country
is not manned,
Ambitious Politics has
a hammer in his hand,
Lawmakers are
lawbreakers, priests are cheats,
Dream dresses up as a social
worker, chastity weeps,
Heads and Henchmen harvest
the country’s crops,
To a lower level
everyday ethics in democracy drops.
But
she, the mother of both the brave and brains,
Has
already reproduced her two sons all-time greats.
The
nation believes they will eradicate double agents,
Bring
the same fair system of our golden governance.
Look,
there is a dimly visible leaf-shoot and a fountain!
A
new life has begun to enter the dried up garden.
Stars
are turning out behind the red glow of the Dawn,
The
worshiper at the Ganga stands, chanting Pranam.
-
Ramesh Chandra Tiwari
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