The Symbols of My Soil.

The Symbols of My Soil.

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The bullocks with the plough, had a long run,

Getting stuck to the soil, like a dress well spun.

Farming was found to be my soil's strong base,

When it became free from the colonial chase.

But the soil seemed to be too'bonded' and big,

For the bullocks and the plough to do the dig.

The right hand with its firm grip and stocks

Slowly got rid of the plough with its bullocks.

As the hand could make and unmake things,

It grew faster and greater to make more innings.

Oh the whip of the hand could be right or wrong,

It could blend or break the rhythm from the song.

The holding hand was soon found to be losing its hold,

By becoming the fist of power, to make gains manifold. 

Then the Lotus that is closer to the soil and its essence

Spread its petals, with magnitude and magnificence.

Against the aroma of people’s aspirations and dreams,

The lotus here, is too soft to survive the political steams.

Handled by the hands, known to mishandle the tasks,
Petals of lotus pang for a glow, as if hidden in masks;

Fancy dissipates fragrance, with an itch for fables,

While facts keep rolling across the deciding tables.

The rising sun in its long transit, has lent more heat than light

With its journey smudged by tainted clouds, dimming its sight;

The leaves are lovely, so long they are fresh and green;

But once turned withered and dry, they lose their sheen.

Be it the sickle and the corn or the hammer and sickle,

It is the hands that hold them,make them face a heckle.

The umbrella can never weather the wild wind and the storm;

So do the other symbols,sulking under pressures of their form.

My soil is dense with more of flags and symbols than of vegetation.
Even if monsoon fails,money does not,for alliances with ambition.
The symbols of my soil keep surging, to match its population,
In terms of caste and religion, to surpass human imagination. 

But what are all these symbols for, without representing a system?

And what for is a stunted system, with out its firm root and stem?

                                                                             P.Chandrasekaran.