DIGNITY

 DIGNITY

When the slavery of centuries ended,
Bonded laborers freed, attended,
Right to make salt, cloths banned,
Banned from spinning clothes, warned, (1)

Forced to pay the annual produce,
No cost, but mercy, hunger recall,
Malnourished skeletal frame fear,
Sickness, illiteracy, human wear, (2)

The darkness, the country is divided,
Split and rule, the key, one-sided,
Protest to live imprisoned, grew,
Fight for independence, life knew, (3)

Freedom and dignity or equality,
Daydream to aspire to lose security,
Eight decades nearer hunt a past,
World Human Rights Day, long last. (4)

Achieved democracy and celebrate,
Dignity of humans time calibrates,
War clouds savage, humans fight,
Massacre, a number the news delights, (5)

Shadow of holocaust, extinction,
Violent world and commotion,
There will be no peace, freedom, or love,
Burning cities, homes souls probe, (6)

Race, religion, and the wall fail to unify,
The world clamors for peace defy,
Dignity, modesty, humans forgotten,
Conflicts, continental fights, rotten, (7)

Withstood our land, a virus spread,
Aggression violating the rule or thread,
The sun will rise and rebuild a new nation,
The dignity of humans an emotion. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 19 March 2026
Themes: Dignity of humans
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