Category : English Poems

Independence With Attitude

If educated people won’t speak out then who else will,
You cowards can stay quiet but I just can’t stay chill,

If capable will cave and simply succumb to the drill,
Who else will show courage to climb this steep hill,

Those who died for you, wasn’t just for the thrill,
Prove, you are special and not just run of the mill,

Love for the land demands, you stand up and pay the bill,
That life is damned, from which lava doesn’t ooze and spill,

If you want, you can do it, but show the nation a strong will,
Be the best and don’t settle for bargain, either it’s all or nil,

Be the ferocious fire, that no one can dare to touch or kill,
That’s the way to earn respect and world will watch your reel.

Some are free because nobody can dare to touch them e.g. lion in jungle can nap anywhere without any worry. And some has got the status of freedom because of other more powerful is gracious enough. Luckily we are living in a time where imperialistic attitudes of nations are fairly restricted due to some factors. Otherwise many nations can lose their freedom overnight.

If we talk specifically about India, then it has never acted as a one nation in history and chances are very less that even in future it ever will. It was a smorgasbord of thousands of different cultures coexisting but still light-years apart in attitudes and probably will remain the same for at least a next thousand years or more. People usually utter some bullshit like, India is a unity in diversity but the reality is different.

Normal Indian person can’t think of any more freedom than just to pee, spit and defecate anywhere. Earlier foreigners used to loot its prosperity and take it away, now our politicians and fraudsters are looting it and putting that stolen wealth away. But hey, at least we can say that we have democratically given that right to loot us instead of someone looting us unwillingly. Another interesting term is ‘Freedom to practice any religion of choice’. In reality that translates to ‘The freedom of being and expressing utter stupidity, bigotry and dumbness in the name of a disease called religion’.

India might have got physical freedom but a real attitude of freedom and independence is still far far away from the majority of people’s tiny subservient minds. In rich and prosperous nations, politicians have got only a couple of tricks to divide the people like race and economic inequality but in India, there are millions of ways to divide people and play with them.

I don’t know whether more literacy is good or bad for India because from 18% literacy rate to almost 80% in the last 70 years hasn’t changed the mindset of the people. Earlier someone needed to try to brainwash the people but now since they can read, they are ‘independently’ numbing their minds via WhatsApp education.

I believe, a strong nation can be defeated in a war but it can never be enslaved. So while saying ‘Happy Independence Day’, people should introspect why the nation lost its independence in the first place. Otherwise, we – sorry not ‘we’ but only those who can understand – know the future of such a nation. India has got independence but let’s hope one day people will be able to break the shell of stupidity and develop the attitude of independence too. 😉

Category : English Poems

Bright Star

Cold planets revolve around the sun,
Millions of years filled with meaningless churn,
Why do things circle around the sun?
Because they themselves cannot burn,

Heat is not even sun’s fault,
He cannot contain that revolt,
Even if everyone can see the bolt,
Not everyone can feel that jolt,

Everyone is born with a little spark,
All living things got that Nature’s mark,
But neither everyone can really connect the arc,
Nor everyone really has the courage to expel the dark,

Those who can hear the freedom’s message,
Have the will to tear down any cage,
For those who are burning with tremendous rage,
Sky is that ultimate stage,

Dull and dumb always swear by the night,
Being afraid of light,  believing, this is not their fight,
Those who are destined to be considered bright,
Never ever prefer to shine from borrowed light.

Pretty much self-explanatory poem and I don’t need to shed light on something which is already so bright 😉

Contrary to many people’s belief, the universe is full of darkness. Our existence is surrounded by extreme cold and thick darkness. Even though the mighty sun lights up a few million kilometers around him to keep some planets warm, its light is not even akin to a tiny lamp in a dark frigid winter night.

A true meaning of life should be something similar to the sun’s existence amid infinite shrouds of darkness. I am not surprised that the very first batch of intellectual beings on the earth understood that truth and started worshiping the sun. Veds are proof of that.  

Adversities are always going to stay. Forces which try to quell you and make you quiet are never going to quit. It is up to you how you want to carry on that tiny little spark given by nature in the form of life. Once in a few thousand years, someone like Krishna, Buddha or Jesus can turn that spark into a raging fire and be able to melt the shackles of stupidity around the people and turn the course of mankind towards brightness. 

In the euphoria of democratization and equality we often forget that the true genius ( not talking about academics but someone with exceptional wholesome development ) is like the sun burning from within. That insatiable fire lights up his existence with infinite joy and unabated enthusiasm. So nobody can ever be equal in that sense because most people are dumb and dull, and like to remain that way. In order to acquire brightness, one needs tremendous energy and that is too much to ask from a normal human being. You can democratize the voting right but there is no way that a society can distribute the power voltage each person carries within. 

Only thing a normal mortal earthlings can do is to either remain bedazzled beneath the brightness of such a person or someone can avail that benevolent shining light and go find the next step to reach higher.

Category : English Poems

Creatures Without Spine

Weakness is rooted in nature’s design,
Otherwise there wouldn’t be creatures without spine,
Inherent lack of potency and courage,
The real perpetrators of any crime

It is very evident that majority is always the hostage of notorious few. And the reason is obvious – most of the creatures lack the ability to stand against…