'Enough is Enough'

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Anna Hazare has been into a war of sorts for the past many days. Patriotism spilled onto the roads. Indian flags could be seen everywhere. It was as if the atmosphere was coloured in the colours of the tricolor of India. The spirit of revolution was infused in various forms. How could literature remain untouched!

I wrote a poem on the theme ‘Enough is Enough’ recited at Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, Siri Fort Institutional Area, New Delhi on 27 August, 2011. Here it goes:

We have been ruled ruthlessly

we have lost our brothers and sisters

we have been made to inherit deaths

but our hearts died not.

We have been beaten black and blue

but we did not let out a sigh.

We have been tortured and trampled upon

but we raised not our head high.

We have been looted

we have been robbed off our sweat and blood

but we whimpered not.

We have been forced to empty our pockets

but we protested not.

Enough is enough now

we’ve slept enough

now we wake up and rise

march ahead

only ahead with courage

towards a new dawn

to answer the reckoning call

of the emerging horizons.