NEW YEAR PLEDGE

New Year Pledge I’ll plant saplings of olive trees around your borders my mother to protect you from attacks of outsiders whenthey‘ll be deep-rooted bear fruits of peace I’ll release balloons in blue sky in thousands to cast a net from bombers uproot the barbed-wires where daisies will bloom in welcome songs I’ll send white doves aplenty who will fly to spread your message of peace toall neighbours still the cry of war will not change to love I wantto protectyou mother usher in safe future for next generation I’ll plead with folded hands to stop genocides 9/11 attacks or 26/11 still they will not listen what else can I do my mother as an apostle of Budha the Tathagata Gandhi and Martin Luther King in this time of hatred unfaithfulnessgreed of war -mongers rajkumar@kolkata 01-01-2010 @Rajkumar Mukherjee