"We Aren't Going Back!" - A Poem

Creative Writing

Poem: We Aren’t Going Back!

By Rohit Mane

January 29, 2016

Once again, we have hopes tall Yet again, we’re outside the door Will you let us in once and for all? Will you listen to our uproar?

Several years, we were called unnatural Several times, we were forced to change For the culture, which boasts about rectitude Isn’t it ironic? Isn’t it strange?

Darkness chases us in every form Some keep fighting, some live a lie But don’t you know, after every storm It’s the Rainbow that decorates the sky?

You can’t imagine what we go through alone, Choked under a veil, days & nights Yet we demand not reservation nor throne, All we want are basic human rights

To live in peace, in love limitless and keen Why is it so damn difficult to let us be free? You blame it on saffron, you blame it on green But it’s your narrow mind that doesn’t agree

Didn’t we get independence in 1947? Why do we still obey the union jack? It’s high time, Open the door, now Let us in, we aren’t going back We aren’t going back!