Saturday, July 11, 2015

NEW ERA


POEM

The freedom fighters
were on the look out for the
ruthless, wretched autocrat
who ruled the country
for more than three
decades with an iron-fist
depriving the masses of
the basic necessities
of life like hunger, famine, malnourishment et al
resulting in starvation deaths of
lakhs and lakhs and as a result
their patience reached its nadir.
They gathered under
one umbrella and
decided to take up
cudgels against him and his loyalists.
The arrogant dictator ordered his loyalist
militia to butcher the masses enmasse.
The militia tried to suppress the
masses with all their might.
Fire-bombings,
machine guns and
other sophisticated weapons,
and lakhs of armed forces killed
and maimed millions of freedom fighters mercilessly.
With grit and determination the latter
with their  lethal weapons launched
fierce  attacks and killed the armed
forces, loyalists and
 near and dear ones
of the dictator and
without taking at least
a second’s rest went on
the rampage with the sole aim of demolishing
the fortress where the
autocrat was wining and
dining with his confidents
enjoying the dancing of scantly clad
attractive and lascivious danseuses
who inebriated them.
At last after heavy
shelling and bombings
the masses demolished the fortress.
The autocrat stealthily
ran away for life
with some of his sycophants and consorts 
and the  remaining ones were murdered.
Finding no safe haven to
hide, the dictator at last took refuge
inside a tunnel.
After angry and determined search
for the ‘man-eater’ the
fighters located him and
pulled him out
beat him up, kicked him
dealt continuous blows on him
and dragged him down the
dilapidated streets until he
was bathed in blood and
finally pushed into the hell.
They celebrated his murder by dancing
along the streets and bursting fire-crackers
for days together.
The rise of a
new sun heralded the

beginning of a NEW ERA……

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