Let the Day Come …

Let the streaks of Dawn seep

thro my window blinds, driving

out the darkness to those hearts where they belong.

 Let the godly ‘ushath ‘hour come, spilling

solemnity and warmth over the universe, and cleansing

the Earth off its sins and impurities.

Let thick plumed birds of morn light

chirp in chorus from somnolent trees, making

the awful silence of night to vanish.

Let someone switch off the dull moon

and whitewash the grey sky. Let the

indolent night wind awakens in the scorching sun.

Let from my memory go off all black dreams I'd

the night before. Let the sun come,

burn out my fright and brighten up my hopes.

Let women wake up with a bang, hearing

temple bells, covering their bareness with hands

 looking impishly at their sleeping hubbies.

To wake up my love, to look at her cherubic

face in the daylight and to re-kindle my sagging spirits

let the Day come.

If the demon of night hugs you again, don’t

be afraid. For, the Angel of the Day will

soon bloom around you and take you back

in her gleaming golden lap.

[This poem just tries to mimic Jane Kenyon’s ‘Let Evening Come’]

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Wall of Shame!

 Wall of Shame!

For decades stood there in the village a wall

built with bricks of shame and tears of dalits.

Keeping in exile senses of mutual trust and honor

the upper caste built the wall, parading airs of supremacy.

A long and huge wall-- it wasn’t built by cement, but

by unjust and unruly ethics-- hatred being the Mason.

Poor dalits, mute they became seeing the wall in their way;

resigned timidly to their cell of subservience … a bequest

 they got from the Varnas. “It’s another albatross on our neck”

muttered the Dalits wrenching their hands in despair.

Happy they became when down went the wall of shame.

For, in its debris they saw no stones and bricks, but

the pride and arrogance of a haughty caste.

To the ground gone the village wall, but yet to go from

our minds is the sturdy wall of casteism, which

we still keep for revenge.

[A sturdy wall that was built across a village in South India which blocked the lower-castes to have access to the main road was recently demolished.]

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