My Brother Poem by Sankhajit Bhattacharjee

'I wish to mark your forehead with sandal-wood paste.
I wish to tie a colored thread on your wrist.
But where are you'?

He was a farmer,
without any knowledge crossed the border,
imprisoned as a terrorist,
became victim of a historical controversy.

'I will make you free with all my might'.
Her dream was fulfilled
but everything was silent
and silence hardly accepts sandal-wood mark or colored thread.

Now she marks foreheads of many,
ties the wrists of many
in search of only one face.