Hiroshima

Apologist for collective indifferenceBereft of long term amnesic stanceCapitulated dissidence
Decades of glaring carcassesEmphasize countless tragediesFrantically reassess the losses
Grim prospects for peaceniksHectored loftily by regimesInvidious despair from mavericks
Joyous wait for impending peaceKingdom of utopian blissLudicrous beliefs never cease
Misread pages of war historiesNormalize causes of thy miseriesOppressive narrations of human follies
Peace comes not by bombing landsQuest for justice needs friendly handsRevolutionaries above mere firebrands
Solidarity in these times of warsTowards lasting peace and raising barsUnionize to defeat the militarist czars
Victory to boundless internationalistsWorkers of the world who unite to fightXenophobes, reactionary nationalists
Yardsticks of progress are years of peaceZenith of harmony shall be rare to miss-Saswat Pattanayak, Peoples’ Poet, 2008