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……