Poisoned

Surely mourning eyes hath seen all the tatterdemalion

Of our fellowmen stood still

Forgotten—

O’er the frontiers of the Eastern land

Bombs spluttered, rockets hissed in rebellion

Echoes of the cry resonated amongst every nation

Tremendous fire blazed all over their homes,

Yet none hath seen;

turned to ashes

A snap of time in the history flashes

Forth oh! Put the dry palms on one’s bleeding minds.

The knowing people have touched

the agonizing truth and lived

Beneath the depth of the dying land:

‘tis of great courage

Of great strength of timeless clan

that Pearl of the Orient still stood

 as the pearl.

“But it is glory ever when thou art wronged

For us thy sons to suffer and die”

now the country’s aching heart: ‘tis a lie?

We are no longer freed; liberty has been sealed

From the high people who feed on its own country

And fooled, and poisoned and bastardized—

the innocent children of the nation.