Jayprakash Narain, You Did Not Do It Right Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Did your morality allow you to leave
The revolution midway,
Doing the ground work,
Give a match
To the spark
As for Indira's autocracy and iron will,
But to push the nation
Into the flames of the civil war,
Burning in and out
On brink of the division of society
Between the backwards and forwards,
The reservationists andd anti-reservationists
Fighting pitched battles,
was it,
Was it good for the nation, Jayprakash,
Say you?

You turned the godfather, the pioneer of the movement,
In your lead against Indira
And leaving it midway,
Turned into Lokmanya,
But as a result of your lead,
The intellectuals and good left thy away politics,
Took to sanyasa from
As for your fellows,
The immature students, fools, illiterates,
Lathimen, rustics, milkmaids, cowboys,
Herdsmen, palm-juice-sellers, barbers,
Washermen, vegetable-sellers,
Oil-pressures, forestmen,
Astrologers, horoscope-makers, soothsayers,
Peons, watchmen,
Paan-sellers, beedi-sellers,
Bhangeris, ganjeris, darpiyas,
Loafers and roamers
All turned into M.L.As. and M.Ps.
And this too not,
Ministers in charge
Of state and central level affairs.