Drishika Shah Poems

They were always ready to fight,
Guarding our borders even at night.
For sure our warriors will beat and rout Terroristan
To make proud the dead, brave sons of Hindustan.
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Peer is a great fear;
And this fear of peer can even make the near & dear queer;
And it always ends with a tear.
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Seven colors in the rainbow, together they stay.
Seven days in a week, together are weaved.
Seven ragas in music, do they ever go astray?
Seven decades of freedom, what have we achieved?
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Our heaven is treated like a bird in its cage,
its unable to walk on its own, as in old age.

I come from place known as heaven on earth,
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In the heart of an old storyteller I was born;
I was told I was mystical since I had a horn.
I was lonely, I was single, I never had a mate;
Friends I could make none; t'was left to fate.
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Once upon a time, there lived a Tasteless Biryani,
That had neither chicken, nor mutton, nor rice.
No one liked it as it was very bland and tawny
It had neither any taste nor any smell of spice.
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