Great Festivals Poem by Mehta Hasmukh Amathaal

Great festivals

Today is great festival
It creates happiness on arrival
We all wish goodness for people
Help must reach them in their struggle

Even though festivals come and go
The message behind its celebration blows
We greet and exchange with fondness
There is great smile on face

The idea behind for all festivals remain dead
We have failed to read
And its place has been taken over by bad feelings
We are proving bad human beings

Why do we want to play the role butcher?
And not good man or simple teacher
Just think of man in street
Let him pass through with same freedom and greet

At least keep religious places holy
Pure and open to everybody
Who come there to bow down?
Let them pray from heart and admit guilt of own

No one should go direct to heaven
When they are already driven
With one mind in place
Let us not gun them down on the question of different face

I cry today in open
When people are driven
Made homeless
Face fire, bullets and deaths