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If Violence Be Her Creed

IF VIOLENCE BE HER CREED…

IF violence be her creed  I would care not live in India….
Bullets of violence ,Ripped my ribs to dumb me 
To live like a portrait …
With eyes but no tears, With lips but no words, With limbs but no works

Thanks I am not there to see
The demolition of Babri *,The fire in Godhra**
The ethnic bomb in Kandhmal***,The dismembered limbs in Kalinga****
26/11 Mumbai stains , Naxalites’ wrath.
But..
My India….India of my dream The Ganges of holiness,
The plains of purity, the heaven for millions of gods
 Being shot every moment If survives
May rot like a portrait .

Awake,awake!!

Note=written after reading  a quotable statement  by Gandhiji-if India makes violence  her
creed and I have survived I would not care to live in India
*Babri-a mosque   ** Godhra-a place I Gujrat that witnessed communal riot  
***Kandhamal-in Orissa that witnessed communal violence     ****Kalinga –a place in Orissa
 where tribal people killed by police

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Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 7/23/2011 9:28:00 AM

Thank you for sharing your excellent poetry I have enjoyed reading it today Prafulla. Wishing you a wonderful weekend and hoping you find lots of inspiration along the way. Love, Carol

Prafulla Sahu
Date: 7/23/2011 11:41:00 AM

thanks Carol,your encouraging comments prompt the little poet in me to write more and more.have u gone thru my poem TO SOPHIA And THE NEW VENUS-ARE THEY NOT COMMUNICATING.I THINK SOPHIA WILL ROCK YR HEART,