Literature No Longer Impresses Me
Like the lighthouse glowing red–Lal Singh ‘Dil’
(stills from the film Kitte Mil Ve Mahi–Where the Twain Shall Meet, directed by Ajay Bhardwaj)
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[listen, we must first pay tribute to Sant Ram Udasi]
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[i am a rogue poet who drinks and defies all norms]
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[but carries the weapons in the vanguard of the struggle]
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[these are noble poets–Udasi, Paash and Shiv Kumar Batalvi]
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[if they are songs sung by crusaders for freedom]
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[some thoughts cannot be erased]
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[why do you cry your eyes out]
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[why are you always humiliated thus]
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[you are unique o shining one]
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[your incandescence everywhere]
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[some thoughts cannot be erased]
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[if they songs sung by crusaders fort freedom]
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[why do you cry your eyes out]
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[why are you always humiliated thus]
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[you are unique o shining one your incandescence everywhere]
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[like the lighthouse glowing red]
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[that shows the way out of darkness]
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[an arm severed, a strange pain]
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[when our friends…brothers die]
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[it is as if we lose our arms]
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[the pain of losing arm]
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[an arm severed, a strange pain not a sigh, not a reflection]
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[who is there to stem our tears if we cry]
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[there is more to come in life ahead]
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[they who do not stand up for their rights]
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[live like donkeys slogging, hogging and dying]
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[those (who stand up) are suns showering rays of light]
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[one darkness, the other light an eternal war between them]
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[where the moonbeam does not stand guard]
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[there darkness camps forever]
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[when many suns die your era will dawn…isn’t it]
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[this is dedicated to Sant Ram Udasi]
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