THE FLAGS OF SUN

 

A procession of flags of sun

In the hands lifted to the furious skies

A storm of revolution-

My country a colony of suns-

We fling into valleys of hearts, on to peaks of mountains

Burning songs-

We eat sun, we drink sun, we burn in the sun

Day in day out.

We are moving bodies of iron;

We are metallic men-

Our hearts we dedicated to the colonies of sun,

We squeezed the inside animal

In rivers of sweat, flowing like the spirit of Vedas

And dried them on strings of sun-

Holding flags of sun joined the unending journey.

Through streets, towns, villages that we pass

On lips of anaemic flowers blossoming

 on helpless trees peels of laughter;

Stretch their naked bodies, heaps of grain in the fields

cry with million voices

when their parents walk away with folded hands

with mere turbans of sunshine,

plough piercing the heart of earth

raises a painful shout-

look ! if the sky flings the sun as a challenge on man,

man kicks the sun like a ball back into the sky-

 

~Seshendra~

 

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