Ode to Bhagat Singh
You have taken over our hearts You rule our minds Flow in our veins You rightly said that ideas can’t be chained. The air is filled with fragrance of your thoughts This redolence is eternal And you are immortal. Why did you endure the excruciating pain? Without the want of any personal gain It wasn’t bestowed on you by fortune You could have easily escaped the gallows But you didn’t You laid your life for your fellows. You said that you were full of ambition ,hope and charm of life The dreams in your eyes sparkled wide But why did you renounce it all And chose the path full of thorns For want of a future in which you wouldn’t be even alive. You shunned the warmth of bed Abandoned the delicacies which your mother fed Leaving sweet chidings of your father Breaking the sweet and sour bond of love with siblings Inhuming the fears and hiding the tears You marched off away from home Well aware of the crucifixion ahead. Sights of mutilated people made you fret The inhuman massacre of the inno...