Historic Visit
A long time afterward have bloomed the flowers of love at last
A long time afterward the pigeon has dropped the letter of love
The two nations Cuba and the USA though lie close to each other
Nevertheless the ideology-chains incarcerated those letters of love
In the air of both states poems and birds did fly quite in plenty
But the politics and warships didn’t care a whit about a love link
Fragile ego and ruinous self-love raise Hitler in our soul universally
Though we wish to keep the windows open to let in breeze of love
Still the high walls rise before us making our eyes blind to blue sky
Deprived of dews our soul saplings go on crying for rains of love
The initiative and the planning have finally yielded the red zinnia
Barack Obama opened the barracks to set off all the captive pigeons
A red cap, a red ring in throat, orange beak, a bird near my window
Sweetly whistles the tune of friendship linking Obama and Raul
Even the sky has come down in drizzle to greet this historic union
May Obama’s umbrella protect the spring of the “historic opportunity’’
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March 21, 2016
Copyright © Probir Gupta | Year Posted 2016
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