Lumumba Poem by Madhabi Banerjee

It was 1951
When Lumumba struggled for liberty.
When he was engaged in a movement
And played an important role in campagning for independence
Of his native land Congo.
Then, here in India
A baby girl was born in a ordinary family
Then Lumumba did not know
The girl did not know
In future her cheek flow of saline water
Knowing the history of malicious act of outrage.
The prime Lumumba and two others lined up against a tree and shot one at a time.
The Belgians wished to get rid of the bodies
And did so by digging up dismembering the corpses
Then dissolving them in sulfuric acid while
The bones weregroundedand scattered.

Now not only Congo, not only America, not only BELGIUM
There is a resonance in all over the world
In the name of Patrice Emery Lumumba.