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Like a much delayed train entering
an eagerly awaiting brightly lit railway station's platform,
Change should come in us with enthusiasm ,
but this time too, the platform is dark,
the bogies are filled, without hesitation, with
writers of old worlds on papers
politicians of old words in bags
and bureaucrats of old ideas in brains
The common people are standing
on the other sides of the tracks
without tickets in empty hands
but with plenty of agony on their foreheads
This dirty system needs dry cleaning,
but someone has raised petrol prices
Multiplication of minus and plus,
searching for a circle with 4 sides
and we call it development
The vested interests of self-serving elite is dubbed as ‘national'
I wanted to say Goodbye to my nation's Vision,
But someone has removed tomorrow morning's tracks
All the status messages immediately displayed "Train got delayed"
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Who are you?
with bended waists and twisted tears
with ruffled hair and semi draped sarees
roaming and searching around these graves
Who are they?
In the graves and from where are they ?
In which battle did they die?
Which battalion and which number ?
Ask Krishna, if it is Kurukshetra,
Ask Mughals, if it is Panipat
Ask Uncle Sam, if it is Iraq
Crimean war, Korea war
First and Second world wars
Ask Bismark, ask Hitler
Ask Brahma, the creator.
Sigh !!! Please!!!
Dont look at me in that manner
with dried eyes and clenched teeth
Dont show me desert breasts
which are void of tears
What can i answer you,
Whom can i say is responsible for ?
Its time for dark night...
Time for Tigers to hunt their prey
Time for tender widows to jump into a damn well
Time for dogs to fight over bones of dead history
Some fear, yes, fear
around with foam of poison
dead poison, deathly poison
agony poison, sad poison
it is flowing, gushing and overflowing
O Mothers!!! Please go !
Why are you roaming around these graves
by bending and bending
with drabness and drabness
Dead bodies don't speak
Graves show you nothing
Death never recognizes
There is no mercy for nature, in nature
All power hearts pump blood, for blood
Suppressing your pain in yourselves
Pricking your own eyes
Why to roam , in this way
in this way, among these blunt trees
these ant hills and collapsed houses
Go away! Go away !
Goodbye!
Go away !
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Note:- 77 Fiction infers to fictional writings bounded to a maximum of 77 words.
She took an auto from the red light area to the beach....
It was her day of 'freedom'...
She wanted to taste the moments of 'her' being a 'person'...
She was desperate to lose her 'identity' of being a sexual object...
She felt the ecstasy of being in a cage-less world ...
She wanted to explore the heights of her new life ...
That day was her birthday...
So, she bid Goodbye to her old life , only until tomorrow...
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