Still I Wish

By Aishwarya Pillai

The partition has cost us many lives,

you might have cherished it, alas! Nobody had listened to our cries.

Dear! The blood stain is yet to dry,

We have not yet mourned to our hearts content,we are yet to cry!!

Still I wish we could be back someday!!!

The separation still aches in my heart,

For you have snatched our kids and took it apart.

The war has plundered both of our empire,

But we never found you in grief instead you gloated the way you conspire!

Still I wish we could be back someday!

The whites had once dictated us in our land,

We kept on tolerating ’em with hand on hand,

Then you came in, we welcomed you,

You plundered, looted our home and painted us in red and blue.

Still I wish, we could be back someday!

Religion has ruled all of us,

For it was the reason for all this fuss!

Let’s grow up and understand things now,

For the border game won’t feed us anyhow.

I wish we could be back someday!

Territorial claims, hostility and suspicion has plagued our relationship,

The greed to grab the realm has devastated our friendship.

Lets not count the days by gone,

Lets begin our kinship with a new dawn.

I wish we could be back someday!

We both have seen the days of gloom,

We wont b carrying the riches on our day of doom.

Let’s forget the days of fight and hatred, let’s shine bright like a sun,

Let’s enjoy the days of togetherness, for ultimately we will be carried to a grave of 6 feet one!

I wish we could be back someday!

By Aishwarya Pillai