He has started….

  

 

He has started

From the south to the North

Embracing the questions

Those have no answers

Planes, choppers, bulletproof cars

Though all are at his disposal

Treading dusty path

He has started…!

 

Taking disadvantage of the crowd

Where his father was

Assassinated 

Tearing him to the shreds

Trusting the same people

Fearlessly, he has started through them

Making violent sentiments feel ashamed!

 

Long ago O I have heard

The kings and the emperors

With huge armies would march on

For the wars to distant places

And ruthlessly

Beheading enemy

Would spill the blood

But unarmed he is

The immense love and humanitarian dialogue

Are his only weapons

He doesn’t speak of winning the states

Doesn’t speak of winning elections

Crossing all boundaries

To go beyond mundane politics

Embracing all likeminded

He has started!

 

His arms spread open

To embrace those

Lonely in the system

And destitute with dreams shattered

Consoling them

With the warmth of selfless love

Like a sage

He has started!

 

In him people see

Sympathetic elder

Or loving brother,

Adorable son to some

The man in his fifties

Is a close relative to all

Whom they can trust

Such a march of love…

Spreading the message of affection

He has started!

 

When  he embraces

People cry in unbearable agonies

Those are caused by the system

And the gloom of hatred…distrust…

Let out helpless tears

Of their sufferings

And feeling deep consolation 

Smile with the hope of tomorrow!

 

What is the use of this march?

What use is talking to people?

Some ask in mockery

The same questions were raised

When Mahatma's  Dandi march had began

And when Baba Amte had started

His mission to connect people

History has sufficiently answered

Such

Ridiculing questions!

 

-          Heramb Kulkarni

(Trnsliterated by Sanjay Sonawani)