Circus artistes playing with brutal and bloody animals
And the orchestra music taking us far away.
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Nataraja Shiva
The statues in sculptures and artifacts,Art-models and the inspiration behind the source of reckoning,Dating back toAn age, era gone by,To the days of yore and antiquityTo look back in wonder.Shiva statues, art-models into the museums,Beaming with,Radiating from,The curators viewing in astonishment,Nataraja Shiva,Shiva as a nata, a dancer,The Lord, King of the dancers.A yogi, a fakira,…
Dark Daughter,
Vast and wide,Who is my ownBarring you,You, my daughter?Under the starry nights,Stand I near the terracotta templesAnd see you, your sculptures,Your figurines,Dark Daughter,I see you and the mystery of the world,The mystery of love and affection.
Black-black, white-white,
Are you white,Completely white,Not black,But white?Yarei yaar, give you notThe bluffOf white money,You too are black,Black-black,Apnei muha miyan mitthu.
Were you a traveller,
A wandererOr a fakirA vagabondOr a mendicant,A ganjeriOr a bhangeri?
Dru addict, you too are the son of somebody,
Who never wanted to make youAn addict,Where your friendsWho developed the habit in youAnd leaving you in abject povertyAnd bad state,Fled they awayAnd now you selling the things for the intoxicants,Trying every sort of addictionAnd instead of it, sleep is not on the eyes,You keepong half-awake and babbling,Your eyes red withWhich you understand it not.
The Partition of India,
And for them,Why did they suffer the people,Just for the leaders and erratic decisionsWithout thinking about the midnight childrenMaking a tryst with destinyJust fro to sit on chairThey pushed India to an unknown future,Children, widows, men and womenTo be ill-fated hapless people,Doomed to die as poor destituteAnd to be killed, tortured and thrown out,Such a…