Sunday, April 7, 2013

A Sonnet for Irom Sharmila: Happy New Year 2012


Wake up Irom. Take your pen and paper. Write a poem.
Break down the stagnancy of our ancient conscience.
The coming days are yours and ours. I swear precision.
Only the dreamers are welcome. It’s nuance.

Wake up Irom, wake up. A year changes itself every year.
The New Year will start up in a new way altogether.
Listen carefully, the footsteps of the men in uniform will no more
Collapse the nights and the harmony of the paddle of the weaver.

The boy went out of home in the morning will come back right
With a smiling face in the evening. Dreams on his eyelid.
No fear, no fear, no loss of humanity any more, everything alright.
Just like Ghalib, Kankhowa speaks the same, oh Ghalib! Its right-

The go down will not entertain scarcity of grains before the year’s end.
It is always good to think such things to keep content your mind.

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