Jallianwala Bagh

By Surinder Singh Mehta

TIME TO ATONE

             For The

QUEEN OF ENGLAND!

 ‘As flies to wanton boys’

Were Indians to DYER –

 He killed them for his

 SPORT!

2020, the year of our Lord,

Commemorates One Year 

And TEN DECADES of a massacre so foul,

 That spirits still howl

About the haunting

Jallianwala GHOUL !

This Jallianwala Bagh

Was a nondescript site,

Till Brigadier General 

REGINALD DYER

Triggered it into

Infamy and History,

With all his might :

On Baisakhi day,

 This Very Day, over

TEN DECADES away.

Walled one side,

A deep well beside :

Trigger happy DYER

Ordered to “F I R E”

In a fit of insanity

On innocent humanity,

Thru British inhumanity.

An unending fusillade

Of rat-a -tat-a-tat

Greeted the tragedy.

Alas! A trust betrayed

And hundreds slayed

As the unarmed crowd

Repeated the refrain,

 “INQILAB ZINDABAD,

ZINDABAD, ZINDABAD” !

Alas ! A trust betrayed

And hundreds slayed :

As they fell on each other,

And on either side

And into the well beside.

These unarmed men,

Women and children

Were indeed their

Family’s Pride, 

Alas! Forever Destroyed.

Was this the Crowns Gratitude

For the selfless ‘War Effort of Natives’ –

Sacrificing several Hundred Thousand soldiers :

DEAD, MAIMED, MISSING – IN – ACTION….

To secure Victory and Honour for the Crown In 

THE FIRST GREAT WAR?

Though Poor, We’re Rich :

We Indians have  Hearts of

 Gold

And Loving Warm Souls.

We’re Willing to Forgive

And even Forget,

The Loot and Plunder

And Untold Murder

Of 200 years

Of the British Crown :

From Clive to Canning,

Dalhousie To Mountbatten.

However, if

The Queen Apologises

For this lunatic act…

This MURDEROUS ACT

At Jallianwala,

We will respond

As is the Indian wont,

With a Positive Bond.

We DON’T seek Reparations

 In CASH:

We seek Reparations 

Of a KIND :

Divine,  Soulful, Sublime .

A genuine R E P E N T:   For a Genocide so FOUL,

Let your Apology HOWL

For those MURDERS MOST FOUL……!!

By Surinder Singh Mehta