Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
THE DAWN
(A poem on the demise of the Socialist movement in India)
To salute the new sovereign flag
the schoolboy felt ecstatic.
“Some day, sure, that Dawn would break”
he sang his favourite bard’s line
for the vanquished ones, the lost ones.
For fifty years, vigil he kept
of the nightly sky for divine symbols
but the blessed Dawn eluded him.
Yet hope dies not so easily.
Crusaders perish. His poet dies.
Miseries pile for the doubly cursed.
Their advocates turn deaf and dumb.
Sold and bought? Nobody knows.
Finally comes the global sign.
Liberalised guns booming at
the vanquished ones, the lost ones.
No one comes to rescue them.
The tired man’s camera clicks
at the eternal dark horizon.
Now is the time to go to sleep
and learn to forget poetic dream.