Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Weeps

ca. 1940, Probably India --- Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950) the Indian politician, at his desk. He was deputy Prime Minister from 1947 until his death. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

 

He wanted India to be One ...above caste color language or religion..

 

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sardar vallabh bhai patel weeps

politicians drive a blunted dagger

through his heart

while the hardened soul

of a fragmented nation weeps

on our national unity

shadows

of factionalism

regionalism

parochialism

creep

political compulsions

defrauding democracy

come to Maharashtra

for a seconds peep

the bhaiyya in the throes of pain

a promise his state satraps could not keep

he came here to earn as an Indian

now battered bruised on a cow dung heap

yes we have progressed by leaps

terrorists come in from the back door

while our erstwhile government sleeps

why blame only Pakistan

some soul searching

within the cobwebs of our conscience

as the martyrs blood from

our country's flag seeps

what we sow another man reaps

lost illusions of our heritage

our past glory

political chicanery sweeps

from a pedestal back to a garbage heap

 

 

Done