Monday 16 January 2017

Jawans

There are our jawans, brave but tarnished
On the frontiers and Siachen glacier, they toil and spend.

Months of varying temperature shower upon them
Yet they stand with immunity and what with their grace!

Yes, now, few do peek at the nameless question:
They, no doubt have a family; their children must be proud?

It sparkles very commonly now: India and Pakistan
Brothers but bloody brothers, sigh, what future intends us?

Their truth, our truth; claims and disclaims; fiction and non-fiction
If this is what we are headed to, we cannot be better dressed.

Deep hurt. Who is so much? Government? People? Paper or trees?
No. Would not so much hurt us straight. Later. The children on the horizon.

Peace and harmony is the solution; much heard, goes unseen.
They sacrifice, we deliver only for happy sleep and avarice.

Debates, blame-politics, insufferable-confronts, tweets, comments
Pour and out-pour. The gloom over us, to be extinguished
Is only fumed further.

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