Only One Word Poem by Mehta Hasmukh Amathaal

Only one word
Mar,2022

It is not the cowardice
If you promise to stand till death
But it is not a patriotic gesture
If you blacken the future of a nation

What shall you have in hand?
Only destruction at the end?
What message do you want to send?
Send only weapons?

Complete annihilation could have been saved
had you remained sensible and dared say
'My country is neutral and follows independent policy'
we shall not allow hostility from the soil of my country

Nobody should remain arrogant
when present
the holy cause in the wrong perspective
your goal for the country should be indicative

No country is great
if the population is let
to suffer pain and anguish
and almost stand finished

old, young, and children
they are driven
from their homes and given
a chance to feel grief stricken

Real statesman
can't act as a stuntman
when the entire nation is razed to the ground
you still sound optimistic

Do you want people to address you as a patriot?
Or are the historians to address as an idiot?
Who could do nothing to save the population!
rather ask for the weapons, then the ration

What is there if you attain the entire world?
but, no soul is left to be told about gain
'I will find till our last drop of blood'
the foolishness of the message is not understood

the friends and sympathizers have left you behind
to suffer the holocaust of the worst kind
you can see the hidden message
manage your own home

We can provide you weapons
die for the nation and face the destruction
we shall not protect you
you have to act on your own

Any nation has to see the nation's interest
and protect in the best and possible terms
it is not great leadership that witnesses complete annihilation
What is left behind to witness as a nation?

Dr Hasmukh Mehta
D. Litt, Folt
World poet laureate
© Hasmukh A. Mehta