Memories of Nineteen-eighty-four
There had been J & K,
Manipur, Godhra, and much more,
But the most haunting are still
the memories of nineteen eighty-four.
Still are in agony the victims of that
naked dance of pseudo-power,
the death of civilization in country
that followed ‘Operation Bluestar’!
The operation where Government used
its machinery against its own folks;
the single instance of its kind in world,
at which humankind still mocks.
To ‘them’, God is dead, tolerance vanished,
righteousness gone, and humanity is no more.
‘They’ have slept for ages and now;
if anyone seems wake up, they cannot endure.
One who comes out of this slumber,
is here always known as a rebel.
And ironically, democracy in the world
is defined as ‘of, by and for the people’.
