Poems by
Jamuna Parameswaran

We won actually

a poem by Jamuna Parameswaran

You came, you saw, you conquered,
or so you thought;
yes may be you caused us lots of damage,
both to human lives and properties;
some of us even lost our loved ones.

But you did not see that after you stopped trembling,
we did not still break, as always.
We are in fact even more united.

We will rebuild the castles and forts we lost,
as we have new blood in our veins now.

Blood that Hindus gave to the Muslims
and Muslims to the Christians,
blood that poor gave to the rich and rich gave back.

See, you succeeded in uniting us.

Now we will build a better Gujarat and a better India.

Ha ha ha! We won, actually you lost,
as now we are united.