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 innocents made your eyes wet

Nation’s derogatory state boiled your blood,your heart ached

Determined to end this soon

Fearlessly you challanged the throne

Making them realize that their end is near

Trembling on chairs they were filled with fear.

People affirm that hunger drives us mad

But even after starving for months

How were you so calm,compassionate and benovalent lad.

To improve the conditions of the people in cell

You survived the brutal ordeal with empty stomach in that hell.

They inflicted on you inhuman pain

Tore your body,pierced you skin

But all in vain

Cuz the valor and fortitude you possessed even when chained

Drowned their heads in shame

Defeated the ones who were in reign.

You were an avid reader,

A revolutionary writer with lion’s heart

You made books your guide

Fought for them , strived for them 

Your thoughts flew freely on pages of eternity

Leaving imprints on the sands of time.

They thought they’ve confined you in prison

Where you’ll annihilate with all your vision

Little did they know how easily they’ll fail

Cuz you were such a gallant who was free even in jail.

The word of death brings shiver even to the bravest heart 

But you took it as a Reward

When few days left of doom

Would have driven anyone in gloom

You were chirpy and effervescent as the new moon.

Taking all the bestial torture and endless strife

You cheered up all your companions in plight

Infusing in them new life

Though imprisoned in dark, you were full of light.

Had no anger or revenge in your heart

Witnessing your insurmountable spirit those beasts were replete with fright.

With smiling face you embraced the gallows

Your kissing the noose made even the brutal torturers bow down and mellow

Fortunate were those who witnessed the sight

Chanting along with you the slogans of nation’s pride

The universe echoed with your thundering voice.

Death like yours is never the end

As Legends Never Die

They rule the minds and breathe in the hearts

They become a star in the sky!