DISMANTLE
Freedom was a reality
unbelievable,
Sucked to the bone, people were
weak,
The colonial rule for centuries
corroded,
The strength of people lost
eroded,
No remorse millions perished in
famine,
Looted granaries shipped to the
island,
The ruler was taking with gun
arms,
Laws were a mockery hanging
frequently,
Who loved the land languished
in jail,
A time came colonial rulers
left, sailed,
Fluttering tricolor united
people holy,
Freedom fighters were betrayed
by folly,
Whom electorate trusted,
deceived,
Dreamed the powerful families
peeved,
Liberty freedom corroded
nepotism,
Broke the back of people's loud
criticism,
Erected wall among citizens
nefarious,
Inflamed ignorance, illiteracy
furious,
Captured the mantle from rulers
united,
So-called upper-class,
intellectual, wicked,
Ensured their families, ruled
the country,
Devious of their ingenuity to
perpetuate clan,
Knew well to keep people, poor,
illiterate,
Poisoned their mind, inflamed
their heart,
Independence at dawn
partitioned,
thousand years invaders ruled
converted,
A ruling class divided the
motherland,
Still not satisfied with
cultivated classes,
Instilled into fiery mind caste
and creed,
Fed's devilish idea of
regionalism,
Language became the barrier
barricade,
Majority minority words coined
to feed,
Burning my country for seven
decades,
Blind people boiled with dogmas
biased,
Blind to reality, fascism,
militancy hooked,
Killing spree sacred land
turned red,
Burned homes of fraternity
fratricidal war,
Watched comfortable ruling
class in no hurry,
Fueled frictions,
pseudo-fundamental rules,
Thousands of meaningless rules
overrule,
Overrule brotherhood tolerance
literacy,
Siphoned revenues development
proxy,
Blind got leftovers saved from
hunger,
Coteries built castles, cronies
forts,
Helpless, mass confused,
clueless suffered,
Six decades of darkness
independence a joke,
Occupied gifted sacred land
neighbors,
Still murkier, their lust to
grab land,
People's verdict acted like a
magic wand,
Voters demolished corrupt
ruling families,
Bite the dust disbelieved poor
class fought,
Feared perhaps first-time start
drama,
Professed vehemently democratic
rights,
Helluva of gift undue placate
middle class,
Trying to grab power by hook or
crook,
Spotless clean, click Father of
Nation,
Laughter mildly spread
electorate disown,
Knew well ruling class forgot
principles,
Choosy to perpetuate rule
exposed,
Dismantle visible walls,
crumbling,
Factionalism, minority concept
fading,
Literacy, skill,
infrastructure, minimum livelihood,
Phenomenal growth, unbelievable
sight,
Independence Day outcry,
dismantle past,
Freedom, equality, liberty,
means ever last...
Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Title of Poem: Dismantle
Themes: Dismantles the dark
past,
Written: 14th August 2023,
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