In Stephen Gill's Poetry Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

In Stephen Gill's poetry,
Three things can be heard and marked
To one's own realization,
The pain of Partition,
The pang of displacement
And the new face of the diaspora dais.

The bargain for power,
The resultant caravans of refugees
Left to their destitute,
Poverty, thirst and human hunger,
Natural calamity and climatic change,
He observes them
Which but change him in a cultural ambassador.

These are the ingredients which have an impact
Of their own on the poetry of Stephen,
Turning him to be an ambassador
of peace and the refugees,
Freeing the slaves in a Lincolnian spirit,
Talking of religious freedom
As did talk Martin Luther King,
Really, an ambassador of peace from the United Nations.

Where there is a talk of peace and amity,
Truce and pact, treaty and warm handshake,
Gill is there, with his Panchsheela,
Where there is a talk of probable talks,
He can be seen camping there
With his peace-keeping forces stationed
And put under observation,
Chanting the shantih mantras
Like T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land,
Om shantih shantih shantih.