Which Mahatma’s heart of love flowed
The ocean of compassion
overflowed!!
Flooding from Birla’s house
The stream of people towards jamuna !!
Not only the royal
swan from the Himalayas
But also the bird in the tree
Is shedding tears
warm sorrowfully
On seeing the body of Bapu!
Bearing weapons of peace
and nonviolence
Wearing the armour of truth
Dandi satyagrahi who led the mass
Moves in to the abode of peace!!
No anger- except satyagraha
No house-except prisonhouse
He’s a message of truth for nation
He’s world anew for the world-
No more can we see karamchand
Who grew the jasmine creeper of nonviolence
Flowers blooming and honey flowing
To prop up
truth !
Slept and smiled the
baby
Beside the mother on the bed yesterday
Sleeps forever and ever
Beside the mother Yamuana today!!
Bapu- Dear
Bapu- liberator of Mother
India
Sacrifices his body
corporeal
On the ground burial
In the fire lit by his sons!!
Spilt blood with his naked sword
Torn asunder motherland
by ‘Khaid-e-Azam’
Burns the heart of
Bapu
On the pyre of sandalwood !!
Leaving his staff and chappals
Departed Gandhi for
the land
Sans scorpions and
thorns
inequity or unevenness !
Emerging out of the golden womb of the dame East
Awakening younger brothers
with enlightenment
Purging darkness, giving lights of freedom,
Sunk in the Western Sea ‘Bhuvanabandhu’
Many turn great after their demise
Unable to be famous when alive
You are Mahatma in ages three
Alive or dead on this earth!
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