Why are You So Accursed?

O beautiful enchanting land ,

The jewel in our crown, 

Why are you so accursed?

It makes me wonder whether all beauty is

Somehow somewhere  accursed! 

You shine and gleam for sometime

And then some malevolent force 

Casts  an evil eye upon you

And, benumbed and dazed,

You fall from grace, broken and sundered! 

What misfortune dogs you like a vampire,

Spills innocent  blood and feeds upon it! 

Deafening gunfire and the heart rending wails of anguish

Have become your recurring nightmarish leitmotif, 

Why?

In the crosshairs of evil forces,

You crave for peace and succour,

One day you are bustling with laughter and cheer,

The next your towns turn into ghost towns,

And your people, like in  a well-rehearsed baleful script,

Go back to their searing pain and their haunted hunted looks! 

When will you finally be rid  of this curse,

When will you finally rise again from your ashes 

And soar again, an unencumbered free bird,

When will you get back into your paradisal  groove,

Never to fall prey ever again to hate and venom, 

To diabolical plots and sinister intrigues, 

O When? 

Arun Bhagat

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