POEM

Proscribe from corruption

— LT Sanga
Naharlagun

Country going on the bias of corruption,
Where the system has been left with blemish;
Wounds of corruption being inflicted,
Making the country writhe in pain,

Hardship we have faced, struggle we have made
To attain ‘freedom’, people have given their all,
Joy that ‘freedom’ brings broke all the chains;
Giving new hope, to build without stains!

Oh! What a pain to see again my country bleed,
Bleeding in the grip of corruption,
How powerless I feel thinking about it!
Why do we try to bungle all the time?
When we can clench the path of righteousness!

Why do we covet and relish in doing things,
That brings shame and chaos to our country.
Doing the deeds to satisfy the defiling needs;
Which can be never satisfied with corrupting deeds?

Have we become so depraved and ignoble?
Making ourselves a stigma in the eyes of the world;
Relinquish what destruct self and the country
Begin from self to proscribe from corruption.