Vijay Diwas; remembering Kargil (written in 2009)
Vijaya Diwas 10 years of forgetfulness 10 years devoid of tears… No resounding booms to punctuate The silences that now follow, No cries of war No silent prayers The bullets that pierced a soldier’s flesh And bled a mother’s heart dry Death awarded to those Who, fear so bravely defied. The thousand deities Of the Indian soil.. Looked on as they fell Not a finger they raised to help, No flashes of lightning Simply the fires of hell… Heaven ceased to exist in those days, Leaving in it’s wake not a single ray, An extinguished sun And a cavernous darkness … Nowhere more pronounced Than in the recesses of the mind Where memories of kargil Seem to have been left behind… For those too young to remember For those too old to try, It’s not death that concludes life , It’s when life’s memory dies. For those faces named and ...