If Gandhi Speaks out Now,

       If  Gandhi Speaks out Now,
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      I loved and fought;
      Loved truth and fought violence and aggression.
      Loved my country and its people;
      Fought their frenzy of religion and fanatic feud.
      Loved, thinking high and living simple;
      Fought falsehood in thought and deed.
      I loved freedom and fought for it;
      I loved my dreams of independence and safety
      Of men and women alike;
      I fought slavery of the soul by the self and society;
      When my nation became free,
      I knew not to rejoice or regret;
      For,passions were on a parade of hatred,
      And peace was mortgaged again to mortifying modes.
      I thought my men would soon learn to rule and get governed.
      But now I need to relearn what to love,
      And what to fight for and against.
      It looks now, as if my men pulled out my clothes,
      And left me in my loins,to lift their lifestyles,
      In my name and in the name of my clothes.
      The colonials were not at least this much corrupt.
      They treated me with more respect than my men
      Who keep my statues as resting spots for birds,
      And visit my tomb twice a year to translate
      Their self promoting programmes in short spells; 
      Today I love my country more than ever
      And have to fight my men to let the world know,
      That I left my clothes for my loins, 
      To let my nation turn rich and not help a few fowls, 
      To rob my countrymen in the name of me and my clothes. 
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                                                       P.Chandrasekaran.