AWAKE ARISE AWAKE!!

ARISE AWAKE ARISE!! - 

A POETIC TRIBUTE TO -

Dr Raja Ram Mohan Roy Born - 22 May 1772 Died - 27th September 1833

Once a reformer in his refrains

Lived with an ordeal full of strains 

The fire in his belly filled his heart with pain 

The desire in mind filtered his hunger with no gain 

 Self-immolation in fire

 Self-immolation on pyre

Witnessed many mothers and men less women 

Harnessed many sisters to remain men less women 

 Reformer's eyes bore the mayhem 

 Earth's daughters bore the harem

 Many other singletons never lived and sore in sky

 Many unwed could never step out of their realm with joy 

The trailblazers tossed their reforming minds in woods

The trailblazers got crushed their burning minds in woods 

Dying their self rather pruning their feathers 

Losing their grit rather priming their survivors 

Survivors inner realm in restless gush 

Sufferers entrapped in damned ambush

 

Had there been anyone to eliminate this toxicity? 

Had there been anyone to check disservice to dignity? 

Had there been someone to persist upon respect and positivity?

Had there been someone to save dignity from toxic atrocity?  

Some voices invoked the voiceless reformer 

Many silences evoked the voiced reformer

And shouted to him be -  "Awake Arise Awake"

Fearless reformer in haunted rage

Featherless reformer in restricted cage

And ignited him to - "Awake Arise Awake" 

Why such saviour Sons are till date respected ?  

Why such sacrifices of mothers are till date disrespected? 

The silver line that stops the beam among brothers is the will to stake

The dirge of fire that stalks the hope among sisters is  the stand to take

The hearth with fire that stoops the will of fathers is  the desire to eat the cake

Till date reformers who may be fathers crave for daughters 

Till date the daughters who look for reformers crave for fathers 

 With the love to restore hearth and fire 

 With the hope to save dearth and dire.