O Statue On Pedestal

Pray Bapu1, we’re in plastic age, Stay happy installed, tall on stage. Too bad, your birthday prayer meets, Rows of stark chairs staring in rage, If your spinning wheels still rotate, They just spin for a page-three page. Your ideals may well still be there— Safe and secured, captive in cage, When so I see your smiling face On a wall, O innocent sage, I wonder at your memorial: How long shall live your tall image, In a ritual lip service, though People would doubtless still engage. _________________________________ Bapu1: Father, as Mahatma Gandhi was endearingly called. It is customary to remember Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary of 2nd October. Saddened, this poet too joins in with this Ghazal. Reminiscing |02.10.2021| Ghazal