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