Let There Be Peace In Manipur Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The flare-up of the tension
Let it quell
In Manipur,
Let there be peace
And harmony,
Let the communities co-exist
With human virtues
Helping each other in distress
Rather than conflicting
On some issue
To be the bone of contention.

Let there be shantih in Manipur,
Let people live in harmony and peace,
Let the fire extinguish it
Paving the way for amicable talks
And good human gestures!

Who are the Kukis?
Who are the Meiteis?
Why do they keep quarrelling?
When will the clashes end?

Just for the ethnic divide
People would be maligned
Never did I admire it
Down the ages
In Manipur.

On seeing the violence-hit areas
Of battled Manipur
And the communal flare damaging it,
Felt I within,
Can man be as such cruel
For his selfish ends?

Now the time has come
For the Kuki and the Meitei to repent
What they have done
And to dress the wounds of history
Rather than afflicting the people with,
Inflicting pain, grief, sorrow?
It is too much!

The Kukis rallying,
The Meiteis
As a result the common people suffering
Those who have nothing to do politics
And to seek for,
What do they want it to make Manipur?

It is shantih, shantih
That you want, I want,
Shantih of mann,
Shantih of tann, body,
Mind, spirit and body,
Burying the odds
Think you at least of grieving humanity
And dressing its wounds
Moaning and groaning with pain.