Janagan[1]
By
Saamaanya
Let us talk about
A journey that was
curtailed halfway
A spring that was shot
down in its midst
Talk about a deceitful claw
of shameless inhumanity
Let us talk about
The tears flowing out of
a burst oceanic heart
The thousand hoods of venomous
snakes that distort even tears
Let us talk about
The ladder to the heavens
The seas that touch the
ladder
The counting crocodiles
that pull the legs
Let us talk about
Our erased identities and
primitive roots
Lost between the lines
Punjaba sindhu gujarata
maraatha draavida utkala banga...
Let us talk about
‘Spashto babe’ janagan
And the valleys of
hearts in every house won over
Let us talk about
The long paths that we
traversed from
The rivers that connected
Godavari and Ganga
Let us talk about
Dreams and the life
spent in realizing them
Let us talk about
The sun that gone down
due to backstab
Let us talk about
A hero
Let us talk about
Defiance that teaches
us the abundance of new dawns
Let us once again talk
About the meaning of janagan
Let us talk about
The jayahe to be
sung in honor of
Adhinaayaka of our janagan
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