Umar Khalid- The Inquliabi
O… foot soldiers of night
do you really believe
that you prosecuted the dawn
By imprisoning the ray of light…
listen, you knights of night…
Umar Khalid is
a north star
that brightens the dark sky
a last sigh of enduring pain
the mother suffers
while giving birth to a new life
a lamp inside
ensuring
the engulfing darkness
won’t seep inside of us too
a boundary line of truth
to ensure
lies don’t trespass
Hence
to remember Umar Khalid
is to continue
the fight of memory
against forgetfulness
hankering for love
in the times of
organised hate.
ethical and eternal vigilance
amidst helplessness, despair and delusion
Of course…
Umar is a terrorist
against the Empire of lies
an anti-national
who planted a bomb
of love
in the fort of hatred
a conspirator
who hid a spark of truth
in a box full of deceit
O..knight of nights
write down my name too…
write it next to that of Umar
in your list of terrorists
my name is Shivasundar
Umar and Me
share the same ancestry
my address: Free Universe
– Shivasundar (Translated from Kannada by Samvartha Sahil )