They didn’t see what religion I belonged to; the
clothes I had adorned freshly for leading the new day,
They didn’t see the family which harbored me; the
fleet of young brothers and sisters that frantically
waited for me to return back home,
They didn’t see whether I was driving the most
swankiest of automobile; or whether I was barefoot and
clad in threadbare rags,
They didn’t see the flurry of passionate emotions
welling up in my eyes; the appetizing meals of rice; I
had just consumed for breakfast to appease my famished
gluttony,
They didn’t see marathon hours of turmoil I underwent
every day; the painstaking agony with which I had
amassed parsimoniously meager savings for vital
survival,
They didn’t see the insatiable desire lingering in my
mind to explore this fathomless Universe; enjoy the
bountiful fruits of nature to the most unprecedented
limits,
They didn’t see the locality which I was proudly
inhabiting; the unfathomable volumes of poetry I had
embossed with my very own scarlet blood till date,
They didn’t see the loyalty with which I had served my
nation; the Herculean struggle I had undertaken to
alleviate my fellow compatriots in inexplicable
distress,
They didn’t see the unrelenting ardor in my sweat; the
overwhelming tenacity in my voice to chant the name of
my revered mother,
They didn’t see the incomprehensible list of tasks
that I had yet to finish; the countless number of
duties I planned to diligently execute in the
remainder of my life,
They didn’t see the passion fulminating in my heart to
contribute my best to the society; endeavor my
absolute fullest to try and metamorphose this
treacherous planet into a veritable paradise,
They didn’t see the stream of uninhibited love
cascading turbulently through my conscience; the
prolific intensity with which I embraced whosoever who
approached me with a tear in his eye,
They didn’t see the inexorably caring looks on my
parents faces; the way they pampered me like a prince;
even though I was well past mid life,
They didn’t see the ecstatic tunes I hummed each dawn;
rhapsodically chased the boisterous cuckoos through
the myriad of innocuous green meadows down the hills,
They didn’t see the unsurpassable amount of feeling I
possessed for my loving wife; the times when I longed
to be perpetually by her mesmerizing side,
They didn’t see the colossal album of photographs I
flipped through each day; nostalgically transiting
back into impeccable childhood as the pages unveiled,
They didn’t see the color of my skin; whether I was
traditionally rustic brown; or had profound traces of
alien white,
They didn’t see the benevolent prayers I chanted;
before retiring for bed every gorgeously enchanting
night,
They didn’t see the immaculate crusts of beard on my
face; the emphatic lines of destiny on my palms
jubilantly wailing to surge forward in life,
They didn’t see the initials adhering to my
countenance; the name my divinely parents had
christened me with; when I had just emitted my first
cry,
They didn’t even see the astronomical number of years
for me to become this big; the agony borne by infinite
elements of the society to make me blossom in
existence,
And even if they did see; they pretended to be deaf;
dumb and wholesomely blind; indiscriminately torching
thousands alive with their families; burning boundless
innocent entities in a concoction of petrol and
ghastly acid; rampantly charring the entire township
of blissful angels into a pugnacious ball of black
flames;
O! ALMIGHTY GOD SAVE EVERYBODY FROM THE MOB…..
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