Today is yet another October 2!
The calender says it all-
It is holiday in India.
It is Gandhi`s birthday
He is dead and therefore
Immortal today.
We have thrown ourselves into
An oblivion that suits us best
And the image of our Gandhi flickers!
We have distanced ourselves from
The pathways he showed us
And he appears to have been deserted on those tracks!
We still paint the faces of the anti Gandhis
As the the portrait of the liberator of India
Fades on the original walls of India.
We in India live a life of excesses
Everything in excess!
A life bereft of that mental glow.
We live for no other reason than begetting off springs
And still dare to forget
Those who lived and died for a cause.
On this October 2
I appeal to my Indian PH friends
To begin to feel for the missing Gandhi.
Let us once more install him
On the pedestal of the FIVE finest persons
Ever lived in this planet in retrospection!
M.D Dinesh Nair
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gandhi-re-remembered/
