The Bridge Of Lima Poem by Indranil Bit

The Bridge Of Lima



Strong stands Lima like a brave man does.
As pride of Peru and all that it bears;
It opens the gate to the mud-wrap church;
Winding rafts through fascinating arch;

All men in sin struggling through life
Wish hard to lift in decree and drive;
They stroll em' up through mud locks;
In seek of peace through serine talks;

Church of Peru is a listener of thoughts;
None is known to return vague and lost;
All hymn in glory of the mud-wrap church;
If thou a seeker of peace, come here n search;

Then comes a day in the month of July;
A day so nice and so promising to deny;
Still fate has plans designed in her whimsy;
To turn turtle flow and prove them clumsy;

It is twelfth of the month when it broke;
The finest bridge, all of Peru has known;
The bridge of Lima, The pride of Peru!
All thrown in gulf, all thrown into void!

All of five crossing the bridge this hour,
Are thrown down like drops on shower,
Who are these five? The chosen ones;
To gift Lima a fate in twisting turns;

Hundreds are known to cross each day!
Amidst all thunderbolts or storm at bay;
Yet that day is too calm to give way;
To break free the bridge! Is beyond say!

Why those five and why none else?
To meet a fate, to meet an end!
Are they the chosen ones as I say?
Or we are too young to conclude play!

Thursday, December 31, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: historical
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
On Friday noon, July the twentieth,1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five
travellers into the gulf below. This bridge was on the high-road, between Lima and Cuzco and
hundreds of persons passed over it every day. It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a
century before and visitors to the city were always led out to see it. St. Louis of France himself protected it, by his name and by the little mud church on the further side. The bridge seemed to be among the things that last forever; it was unthinkable that it should break.
BASED ON: THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by THORNTON WILDER (May,1939) .
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