Democracy My Foot

Dr. Dalvir Singh Gahlawat

 

What if you are democracy?

I am still alive

Do you know?

Who am I?

I am O’Dawyer

In the form of

Democratic Administrator

You are on bend stretch

When I become brute

Oh! Democracy

You are my foot

 

Your all components

become weak

when I am on peak

When I order

you become meek and moot

Oh! Democracy

You are my foot

 

Though being powerful

neither hopeful

nor cheerful

Though I am not insightful

rein you by hoot

Oh! Democracy

You are my foot

 

Oh! Coward democracy

Go down the drain

before you slain

I shall never allow you

to mount and sit

Oh! Democracy

You are my foot

 

Where is your bosom of

So broad and magnanimous?

When you are crashed out

to “Right of Speech”

Seemingly weaker than 1828

Where you advanced with

“Simon Go back”

Your tongue was in my boot

Oh! Democracy

You are my foot 

 

Bone of my sorrow

Dr Dalvir Singh Gahlawat

 

I looked for salvation

in physical body or representivity

rather than in future immortality

I preferred the physical Universe of nature

rather than true self

or

‘power of my creature’

I entangled in the cycle of generation

rather than to get rid of copulation

I ate the forbidden fruit

rather than to follow his route

Consequently

penalty declared by God

I was expelled from my Abode

 

Futility of war

Dr Dalvir Singh Gahlawat

 

Sitting with an exuberant mood

Everything undergoes a change of burst

Father and brothers are killed in a war

A great responsibility is thrust

to defend people from slavery of czar,

to avenge the death of dear first

 

Mother incites to take sword,

to lead the army against the forged,

to honor the memory of deceased,

to keep unblemished the sword

to challenge the male supremacy of warlords

Continued in the collective insight of hill abode

 

Full of tension and pathos

Gauntlets to inspire the mammoths

Unite them to inflict crushing defeat on foes

Calls upon to free the country and friends

Gathers to revenge the Prince killed in wars

Hiding marriage dream to be solemnized on the mars

 

Defensive war leads

to a series of bloody confrontations

Continue for years,

Culminating in the victory

Loses comrades and many powerful fighters

Consequences turn into favor of mightier

Surviving forces are tired of test

Sanctioned leave to rest

Visit to their families’ nest

Celebrate the task as a feast

Leave the opponent a least

Stand in tent as a guest

 

She too decides to go home

to take a bath in river alone

to breathe in the tranquility of moon

to take rest in nature’s loom

to be calm and serene, avoiding doom

surviving the idea of celebrating honeymoon

 

Arch-enemy, severely wounded

Pride brushed, surreptitiously

Follows her, determining to attack

When she starts bathing without escorts

With his deep rooted sense of revenges

malafide intention he manages

 

Makes out the sense of fear

Challenges arrogant male warrior

Forces him to bite the dust

Vanquished neighboring ruler,

who had killed her father and brothers

in aggravate failure

 

In the denouement, one can watch

bodies on bodies hated one another

Intensely found with nobody

to weep for them

 

 Dr. Dalvir Singh Gahlawat is a retired Inspector Delhi Police. Born in a small hamlet (Raipur) of District Jhajjar, Haryana, India. During his service he got M.A. Political Science, M.A English, M. Phil. English and PhD in English. He visited all over India and abroad and attended above fifty UGC/BPRD sponsored National and International Seminars. He chaired sessions at various International level seminars and also remained ‘Resource Person’ and ‘Key Note Speaker, ‘Guests of Honor in these seminars. Presently, he has more than fifty Research papers, including poems and short stories. His Poems “Boat of Life”, and “I am Politics”  were selected the best poems in the International Poetry Fest -2011 held at Guntur, AP, on 11.11.2011 and 21-22 September 2017 respectively. He also attended 42^nd All India Police Science Congress held at Gangtok, Sikkim from 15-17 Feb, 2012 and presented his papers there. He has nine books to his credit. He also took part in National Human Rights Debate Competition at National level.