The Middle East Saga! Poem by Naga Vamshidhar Ratakonda

News Paper Headlines,
News Channel Scrolls,
Flashed Time to Time,
As I Grew Up from,
A Child in Boy Nickers,
To an Adult in Full Pants,
And to an Aged in Bald,
The Media of Sorts Claim,
'Middle East Crisis is here to Stay'!

Generations Passed,
And Ages too with Them,
Desert Sands Hosted,
Battle Grounds And,
Test Grounds For,
New Technology War-fare,
Ending the Draught of,
War Movies for Hollywood,
After World-war Blockbusters!

Like the Crescent Moon,
A Witness to Salaams, Namazs &,
Prayers of Religions Several,
The Bamiyan Buddha's,
Stood Tall Time-tested,
Witnessing The Glory & Peace,
Of 'Mesopotamia' and,
'Indus Valley' either sides,
Demolished by those,
Who De-value Fruits of Peace,
With Affinity Lacked for,
Desert Sands, Oases & Dates,
Dating the Continuous,
Internal & External,
Strife in Camel Nations!

Everyone a Prince and,
Warlords All with Egos',
Not Yielding Control,
World's Police Nations,
Sides Groups At Times,
Governments Some Times,
Strategy Back-fired OtherTimes!
The Nations of Middle-East,
Filled with Bombshells of Tanks,
Drones, Scuds & Missiles in Sky,
All Made Eagles & Vultures,
A Story of the Desert Past,
Though Deaths Countless!

War's they Say Occur,
In the Land of Camels,
When Peace with Desert Sand,
Is Destined Un-bearable!
Oil for Bullets And,
Bullets for Oil Exchanged,
In Barrels And In Dollars,
Became Law of the Land!
Bullets not Made of Oil,
Oil not gushing from Bullets,
And Only Blood that Sheds,
From Fiery Bullets!
But The Cohesive Bond,
Between Oil And Bullets,
Became As Strong as,
The Relationship Between,
Desert and Sand itself,
With Oases of Peace,
Found Here and There,
For 'Nobel Prize' Sake!

In Conditions Fragile,
A Century Flashed and,
The Flashback Not a,
Fairy Tale or Even a,
Fable to be Re-told,
Like the 'Arabian Nights',
Like a 'Rustum & Sohrab' Classic,
Like 'Aliaba Forty Thieves',
Like 'Aladin and Magic Lamp',
Or Comedies of 'Mullah Nasruddin',
That in Childhood I Read,
With Great Zeal & Awe!

Alas! For Allah's Sake,
Middle-East Crisis Seem to Stay,
Even After I No-longer Stay,
With Mirages of Hope,
Making it a Saga and,
The By-products of it,
Hindering World Peace!