My dear Afghani sisters !
Today
I don't have for you
Any assurances
Any tender poems.
Your momentous helplessness
Your phenomenal suffering
Have dwarfed
All words of
World -encyclopaedias and dictionaries.
Ours are the fateful times
When all conventional
Myths, narratives ,idioms
Dreams, Aspirations
Stand crushed and shattered
No more can I acquiese:
“pen is mightier
than the sword.”
Your own
Family men
Your brothers, husbands, sons
Have deserted ,dumped you
And fled...
World Superpowers ,Peace -agencies
Media-commandos , intellectual -warriors
All scared,all stiffled
Stand mere mute spectators
THIS IS THE WAR
YOU have to wage
My dear sisters
For your own sake
And for your daughters,
And in a war
Not tears of misery
But blood of braves
Writes
The final victory and history...
Rashmi Bajaj
