Noman Hamza Poet Free verse

Lines Written In Nineteen Ninetythree

Lines  Written  In  Nineteen  Ninety Three

           ((with apologies to Rabindranath Tagore)

Where fear stalks the mind and the head hangs in shame;
Where knowledge is twisted;
Where the country has been broken up into fragments by narrow walls of caste and creed;
Where words are mouthed for short-term gains;
Where insatiable lust stretches its arms towards seats of power;
Where the clear stream of reason has dried up in the scorching heat of the forest of communal 
                                                           flare-ups;
Where the mind is led backward by Thine enemy into  ever-narrowing thought and action –
From this nightmare of licence,my Father; let my country awake.

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