Hush

Hush! Don’t utter a letter!!
Lo-they are coming ….
At this very moment they are coming,
Those you say enemies – they!
They are dragging away my father
Perhaps to there, to that hell

Maa, is that hell a dense forest
Or an unknown land?
May be it hell or heaven?
I want not to visit it !
Maa, kindly hide me
Hide me in your secure lap
Hide me behind the loose hanging end of your saree,
I’m extremely afraid, maa !

Behold ! Wind is panting
Air is heaving long sighs afflicted by death
To conceal magnanimity of light
The sky is dropping the screen of clouds !
Enduring earth is sucking fresh blood
Helpless angels bewildered,
In the jail of calculative humanity
Nude civilization imprisoned, senseless,
Confounded in frightened pain,
Maa,
Let us abscond to a remote land
A land where death never wears
The costumes of violence, apparel of executioner !
Where is that Utopia ?
Where is that paradise, Maa ?
Where is that protectors motherland ?

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