SHACKLE

 

SHACKLE

 

 

Life mysteriously differs at birth,

Varied class, community, religion,

Varies caste, color, language bitter,

On the lap of a mother, same is a baby,

Human beliefs define divinity,

Innocence never finds baby shares,

Simple smiles ignore any dislike or anger,

Plays with people, little differentiates,

Hugs simply, play fun with evil,

Tell me, if a baby fears death,

Ever fear of injury, pain for insult,

Answer smiling baby resembles God,

Mother first teacher instills a voice,

The tongue of a child replicates her talk,

Language thousand human voices,

World over baby differed instantly,

Laughed silently, baby on soil,

Differ nationality acquire automatic,

Tongues differentiate instantly,

Some English, next German, a list,

Grows baby, as a child learns,

Dress, food, and lifestyle change widely,

A child in Sahara to Tundra,

A child white in color or Africa,

Face mongoloid golden color, east,

Generation on earth follow their races,

Human seeks God worldwide, pray,

Could not find the physical presence of God,

Millions pray in church Masjid temple,

Jihadist, Allah love your heart,

Hands colored with human blood,

Crusader still Jesus love you,

Ignores killing forgive instantly,

Hello, Hindu warrior, behead other,

Lord has forgiven you serving faith,

Lord listens to prayers desperate,

Lack of innocence of a baby newborn,

Crying a baby mother at side feeds,

Less differentiated breast oozes instantly,

Lord with motherly love, O’ human,

Ever you observed Lord is mother,

Look minutely at the soil under feet,

Land, your mother, least differentiate,

No difference for her, jihad, crusade,

Differentiate less a swastika, feeds,

All her children, her breasts oozing,

Oozed millet, milk, you drink,

Muslim, you grow, hell and hearty,

Christian, you are wealthy,

Hindu, a billion on her bosom,

A child learns as Kashmiri or Kerali,

Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya,

How many types of Mother’s milk,

Taste water of Kavery, Godavari, Ganga,

Ever O’ Bharatiya felt differently,

Mother feeds you a baby for her,

Bountiful fertile soil, golden grains,

Tilak red-colored or crescent,

Grains stamped with a cross, answer,

Ever motherland denied you,

The shackle self-chosen, you show,

You show Bible, Quran, Gita barricade,

Shackled children on tongue speak,

Shackle on cast, Jadav, Brahmin,  

Rajput, Kshyatriya, Thakur, gender,

Caste longer than Ganges Baby in shackles,

In shackle, life seeks God, freedom,

Shackle subtle humanity cursed,

Freedom illusory Almighty is invisible.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra