My Nation Today...

Volunteering themselves into the mayhem;
Their life at stake, but little did they mind.
Their focus: the safety of a beloved Nation,
Encountering terror upfront; the bravest men of its kind.

Its not just today, a whole family wept,
For the cause of a country to remain unscathed.
They've taken the bullets on their chest,
They are the true men, the true patriots; at their best.

Salutes the Nation, the audacity of its martyrs,
But shuns in shame at the divided dirty politics.
Failing so miserably, in both governing and opposing;
Little do they realize? The power hungry demagogues?

A monument charred and numerous dead,
The terror carved in the hearts of few hundred,
A resolute Nation, irreparably scarred;
The question remains unanswered, for how long so hard?

- Veena

- Dedicated to the Brave NSG Commandos, the Indian National Army, the Mumbai Police and to the numerous civilians who risked their life to save the numerous lives that they did on a day that the Face of India was re-written in the International History of Terror. 26th November 2008..

When the World turns White..

I look and wonder at the muted space;
The barren lands; The stark landscape.
Sheets of ice frozen far and wide,
'My World' here, devoid of the slightest hints of life?
I refuse to swallow this bitter truth;
Reality, most of all is hard to bite.

A cold gust blew across my bare face
Is this the last leaf, to foresake its long fending tree?
I stare, I writhe, struck in the semblance of solitude.
I feel the chill and my heart deep down sinks,
As I lament with tears in agony and emptiness.

The shrill yearning whine! shattering my profound thoughts
Do I hear it wrong? I blink my tears off;
A heartbeat at my feet with adoring eyes,
Wagging its tail, laden with hope;
The faith in its mistress unflinching at all odds.
Personifying faith; I now comprehend is Life's essence.

Lucid in my thoughts, the fog disentangled,
And my days of loneness, in a jify swept away!
The tiny whelp reiterated Life's quintessence;
Fortitude reborn, I face the World afresh.

-Veena