SHE IS STILL ALIVE!

SHE IS STILL ALIVE!

-         Saptarshi Basu

A raindrop falls, hits the ground, disintegrates and is no more. 

The last light of sunlight leaves with a disappointing face.

Imagine a home in the country 
Imagine a garden, rose beds
Think of the sun in the flowers, 
Imagine your children playing, 
Carefree and happy.
Are the seams in your shirt straight?

Imagine a girl who wanted to go home...

Perhaps, just like you and me

And, as you sit now in you chair and read

She hasn't reached...she is no more.  

I have heard of Auschwitz,
The Nazi Death camp,

Where smell of death hangs in the air

Where men, women, children were once burnt alive

Auschwitz is still alive,

In a country with garden and rose beds,

In a country with sun in the flowers,

In a country where she is still alive

To meet a million death.


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