Night Rainbow Poem by Prasanna Mishra

Dark clouds would engulf again
I painted a rain-bow and a brief sunshine
In the interlude
To let you enjoy a packet of Alu Bhujiya
With friends
Before you run again and again
To tell the elusive Tahasildar*
That the piece of land
The goon is building a palace on
Has been yours
That was forcibly taken away
You would cool your hurt psyche
And share tea with a stranger
Yet another victim
In the nearby tea shop and
Listen to your story from his lips
The Tahasildar has not shown up
Even on his eleventh errand
In the scorching heat.
Are you not entitled, my friends
Even to see a rainbow and a brief sunshine
I, a friend, paint for you
For the looming dark nights! !

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* Tahasildar is a local public official dealing with Estate.




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