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Mainstream, VOL LV No 6 New Delhi January 28, 2017
He Stands There
Tuesday 31 January 2017
#socialtagsHe stands there
holding his iconic hammer
silhouetted stark against history’s horizon
watching the sickle move and meet
the full harvest of time.
He stands there
waiting for the flags of revolutionary change
flutter aloft fearlessly
and redeem their promises.
Waiting for the surging moments
led by visionaries to knock out
the rotten pillars of exploitation.
He stands there
Watching the old-fashioned labour-mills
disappear in the jaws of emergent market sharks
watching the green cover recede
into the mirage of capital prosperity.
He stands there
watching radical slogans lose their edge
and his leaders’ feet bog down
in the quagmire of indecision.
The mirage shimmers for endless miles, and history gets ready
To turn another leaf of his epic chronicle.
Yet he stands there
holding his iconic hammer
silhouetted against history’s horizon
seeing the crimson rays of hope far in the future
where the sickle moves and meets
the full harvest of time.
Sharad Rajimwale