Monday, 6 September 2021

TO MY DEAR AFGHANI SISTERS-WITH LOVE-POEM BY RASHMI BAJAJ.


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 





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