The Partition Literature Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The Partition people with the Partition literature
Going from one side to another,
One border to another
Like the footsoldiers,
Armless and empty-handed,
Telling of the apathy of the politicians
With no kindness for humanity,
All for chair to sit on.

Khushwant Singh in Train to Pakistan,
Krishan Chander in The Peshawar Express
And K.A.Abbas with The Refugee,
Marking the whirlwind
Uprooting it all
And all discussing die in harness cases,
Life in bivouacs and camps,
The people turned homeless, shelterless
As for politics, bloody politics,
Man mad after power and position.

The trainloads, busloads of passengers,
Distraught and devastated,
Looted and slapped
By destiny and time
Going to an unknown destination,
Fromwhere nowhere to return to,
Just to make a fresh start,
With no promise of a better tomorrow,
Oh, the Partition people,
The tedious and tiresome journeys
And their tales of misery!