A Tribute To Khudiram Bose-The First Martyr Of Armed Freedom Movement Poem by Neela Nath Das

He walked to the gallows,
without a mark of anxiety,
firmly and cheerfully as if was
destined to sacrifice his life
He smiled when the cap,
was drawn over his head!
Though failed mission,
he was the first torch-bearer,
of Fiery-age of Indian-freedom-movement.
At that age of eighteen,
when boys beguile time in
day-dreaming, thinking of career,
he took pistol in his hand,
to liberate mother-land from,
The tyrants' clutch!
But, mistakenly, he and
Prafulla Chaki, ended two,
Innocent lives! .......
Chaki took his own life,
And Khudiram, the chained lion,
did not bow his head.
He was sentenced to,
death, and hanged on
eleventh August,1908.
The First martyr among
the revolutionaries he
became and gave birth to
hundreds of Khudirams,
In the then Bangladesh!
History wrote his and,
Prafulla Chaki's name,
In golden letters.......
None could wipe it out!