HARBINGER

 

HARBINGER

 

 

Broken the chain of slavery past,

Changing decades smile forecast,

Skeletal human frame, shrunken,

Blooming paradise love drunken, (1)

 

Forgotten invaders colonies exist,

Scar of the past history yet resist,

Craze, era education magic wand,

Nothing impossible human hand, (2)

 

Octogenarians saw a few wars sad,

Partitioned homeland times mad,

Aggression invader lurking lurch,

Fifth columnist, plotting to torch, (3)

 

Canvas, glorious future prospers,

Youth skilled, educated, hilarious,

Fewer beliefs change the landscape,

New era golden era horror escape, (4)

 

Unforeseen security progress stay,

Female backbone of country way,

Entering into every stratum of lives,

Mantle, the leadership, says, strives, (5)

 

Life of mine bridging past and present,

Liberated country poverty nascent,

Seen hunger, diseases, death scars,

Disappearing gradual past is war, (6)

 

Mightier my country industrious,

Transform technology miraculously,

Why I fear unknown horror exists,

Class and creed faith amity resist, (7)

 

Lost lives, visible, the fight continues,

Selfish venomous snake, let refuse,

Family race group region surface,

Fratricidal force invisible in trace, (viii)

 

Defeats liberty, freedom, rules veil,

Sad at twilight years, worry unveil,

Unity, price of freedom, precious,

Sacrifice critically essential pious, (9)

 

Led their lives youth save frontier,

Loot corrupt harbinger volunteer,

The shout, chant, roar, noisy vexes,

Look at them tearful life annexes, (10)

 

Nameless, faceless, imprisoned hit,

Lost career, future, family retreat,

Sit at Lonely Park discolored time,

Leafless trees scenarios life define, (11)

 

How matchless resemblance stays,

Sat for an hour, thank youths I pray,

True harbingers protect the country,

Spare lives selflessly guard entry. (12)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Harbinger 

Themes: Social volunteers protect

Written: 5th February 2024 Cuttack

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