Hiroshima

Apologist for collective indifference

Bereft of long term amnesic stance

Capitulated dissidence

Decades of glaring carcasses

Emphasize countless tragedies

Frantically reassess the losses

Grim prospects for peaceniks

Hectored loftily by regimes

Invidious despair from mavericks

Joyous wait for impending peace

Kingdom of utopian bliss

Ludicrous beliefs never cease

Misread pages of war histories

Normalize causes of thy miseries

Oppressive narrations of human follies

Peace comes not by bombing lands

Quest for justice needs friendly hands

Revolutionaries above mere firebrands

Solidarity in these times of wars

Towards lasting peace and raising bars

Unionize to defeat the militarist czars

Victory to boundless internationalists

Workers of the world who unite to fight

Xenophobes, reactionary nationalists

Yardsticks of progress are years of peace

Zenith of harmony shall be rare to miss

-Saswat Pattanayak, Peoples’ Poet, 2008