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Umar Khalid – The Inquliabi

A poem, translated from the original in Kannada, to a youth leader incarcerated under a draconian law, without bail for four long years

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 )

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