63rd Independence Day – I owe them all

August 15, 2010 / Free Verse, Poetry

A midnight sixty three years ago We walked our baby steps FREELY Now reaching atop the global commerce A billion people celebrate India A pious soul in a loin cloth Taught the world Nonviolence A World leader par excellence laid foundation for a battered nation And an iron man by his side secured the nation state by state The countless heroes who fell fighting The revolutionaries who died so young

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