New Tear Pledge Poem by Rajkumar Mukherjee

New Year Pledge


I’ll plant saplings of olive trees
around your borders
my mother
to protect you
from attacks of outsiders
when they‘ll be deep-rooted
bear fruits of peace


I’ll release balloons
in blue sky in thousands
to cast a net
from bombers
uproot the barbed-wires
where daisies will bloom
in welcome songs


I’ll send white doves
aplenty who will fly
to spread your
message of peace
to all neighbours
still the cry of war
will not change to love


I want to protect you mother
usher in safe future
for next generation
I’ll plead with folded hands
to stop genocides
9/11 attacks or 26/11
still they will not listen


what else can I do my mother
as an apostle of Budha
the Tathagata Gandhi
and Martin Luther King
in this time of hatred
unfaithfulness greed
of war -mongers


rajkumar@kolkata
01-01-2010
@Rajkumar Mukherjee