I Believe In Humanism Poem by Sanjukta Nag

Would you mind my countrymen
If I say I don’t believe in patriotism!
Yes, I question that patriotism
Which forces one towards hostility
Against another country or community,
Only for showing love to his own
Forgetting we all is made of same blood and bone.
I despise that patriotism
Which denies any duties of humanism
And send soldiers in the front for eternal sleep,
So the citizens can wake up tomorrow
Unrealizing what is war and its sorrow.
It’s the flare of patriotism
That still radiates from Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Don’t the patriots know by now
What made the air of Pearl Harbour murky!
What made the Jews run from their home
Hiding their body’s black and blue marks,
Great leaders of history showed the world
This is how nationalism works!
Though, the sun still rises in the east
The moon still wanes at night,
We, the people of this earth
Still living under the same astral light.
So, if I say I disbelieve in nationalism
My country, would you mind?
‘Cause I don’t want to create any bind.
I dislike to leave my human feelings
Behind the sharp barb-wired lands,
The resemblance between desert and sea is
In both of the places we find sands.
We are all same in the nucleus
Seeking peace in every single day,
One doesn’t need to be a patriot
As “I’m a human” is easier to say.
I accept humanism
That is born to care the people of this earth,
For there were no borderlines between soil and sea
When the blue planet first took birth.
So, I don’t care about nationalism
That puts land against land, men against men,
If we all die together an atomic death
Only then it’ll liberate us from its chain.
Or will it follow us to the heaven? !