A Vis-A-Vis With The Gandhi Statue, Gandhi, You Have Lovers World-Wide, Why Did You Move Out To Ghana Univ. Campus? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Gandhi, you have lovers worldwide,
Why did you, did you
Choose the Ghana Univ. campus
As for a walk over
In Accra
Where the men so politicized,
So conscious of
And that too in this age of personality thrust
And post-truth phenomenon?
Gandhi, frankly speaking, did you,
Did you want to be an icon from your within,
Speak, speak you frankly, Gandhi?
Speak, speak you,
Are you, are you not satisfied with
Your statues built worldwide
That came you to Ghana fro politics?
Gandhi, why to be a god?
You too were a man,
You too had shortcomings, limitations of your own.

Gandhi, why are you not satisfied with
As you have lovers worldwide,
Why in Ghana for politics
If they like you not,
Not all, but the few
As they are bent upon taking your head.
Gandhi, where are you not?
Your sculptors and inaugurators the great men,
Great men of the world,
Your statues I see in and thank them
Looking upto for their skill in making,
Sculpting, raising, erecting it,
This much is your love,
Do not expect beyond this.

Your marvellous statues I see
At Parliament Square, London, England,
Ariana Park, Geneva, Switzerland,
Garden of Peace, Vienna, Austria,
Memorial Garden, Jinga, Uganda,
Glebe Park, Canberra, Australia,
Plaza Sicilia, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Church Street, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa,
Copenhagen, Denmark,
Tavistock Square, London, England,
Lake Shrine, California, USA.