Believe Me Poem by Ratnakar Rout

Believe me, now-a-days
I am amongst much confusion
Which I had not ever had in my life
Still I prefer to maintain utter silence
I look calm like surface of the mid sea
As appears everything is in order
But, enormous current flows within
May be a strange volcano gathers its
Momentum underneath surreptitiously
At anytime from now it may blow up

Believe me, at times I listen from inside
Let the ground make ready now onwards
To bear its startling violent spells
Let every one be aware to face the catastrophe
That may at any time fall upon us

Believe me, things are not going well
As we all see and accept on its face value
Some wrong somewhere hinders the move
When delivers it behaves like house of cards
The fruits do not reach at the right place
The beneficiaries suffer and their waiting
Continue for ages for a better tomorrow
But a few, who matters despite such stark realities
Claims a full proof system is still right in its place
Which carters to the needs of one and all

Believe me, things are changing very fast
You wish or not anytime from now anything may happen
A skeleton in your cupboard may raise a slogan
A dead man may spring up from his grave
With a loaded gun and may make the grave yard
A place of dissidents’ activities
They may too together convert it
To the burial ground of the reactionaries
How long voices can be ignored unheard
How long wishes of a few would prevail on
Situation is ought to change today or day after

Believe me, the honey bees here and there
Toil to build the honey comb unperturbed
Butterflies apathetic to the happenings around
Caress the flowers keenly
Breeze blows and seed sprouts
As usual like the eternal go of the world
And the winter sun hugs me lovingly as earlier
I see a ray of the morning sun brightens
The balcony of my apartment
The sight amuses me to my heart’s content
I am thus hopeful. Believe me.