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) ___________________________________ *** *** [listen, we must first pay tribute to Sant Ram Udasi] *** [i am a rogue poet who drinks and defies all norms] *** [but carries the weapons in the vanguard of the struggle] *** [these are noble poets–Udasi, Paash and Shiv Kumar Batalvi] *** [if they are songs sung by crusaders for freedom] *** [some thoughts cannot be erased] *** [why do you cry your eyes out] *** [why are you always humiliated thus] *** [you are unique o shining one] *** [your incandescence everywhere] *** [some thoughts cannot be erased] *** [if they songs sung by crusaders fort freedom] *** [why do you cry your eyes out] *** [why are you always humiliated thus] *** [you are unique o shining one your incandescence everywhere] *** [like the lighthouse glowing red] *** [that shows the way out of darkness] *** [an arm severed, a strange pain] *** [when our friends…brothers die] *** [it is as if we lose our arms] *** [the pain of losing arm] *** [an arm severed, a strange pain not a sigh, not a reflection] *** [who is there to stem our tears if we cry] *** [there is more to come in life ahead] *** [they who do not stand up for their rights] *** [live like donkeys slogging, hogging and dying] *** [those (who stand up) are suns showering rays of light] *** [one darkness, the other light an eternal war between them] *** [where the moonbeam does not stand guard] *** [there darkness camps forever] *** [when many suns die your era will dawn…isn’t it] *** *** [this is dedicated to Sant Ram Udasi] _____________________________________ adminhumanitiesunderground.org