TO OBLIVION
If tomorrow
I do not
Awaken,
Know that
I'm in a dream
Choosing to
Live
A beautiful
Reality...
Do not weep!
I'm fatigued
Of this
Insensitive
Tattered
Life...
It holds
No meaning
When there
Are
Hostile
Allies
Around me.
Fairness
Is a mere
Word
Beguiling to the
Innocent...
Nothing is fair
In this
Life
Upside down
So if I
Do not
Awaken
Tomorrow
Know it is
Because I
Desire no
Longer to see
Scowls and frowns!
Time of change
Will soon erase
The memory
Of my once
Laughing face.
For life is
Busy
In a meaningless
Rat race
And should
I choose to
Slumber
Do allow me
To gently
Fade!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
BHARAT MAHAN
Screams no one
Hears
Tears, no one
Wipes...
Lives tortured
Lives lost...
And how can we
Call
Ourselves
Great?
Does law and rule
Count as life
When there
Is no breath
To follow
Either?
Do religious
Rituals
Mean
We are all safe
From
Mindless acts against
Each other
Especially the delicate
And weak?
Yes, we call
Ourselves great
But how great
Are we
Really?
Look within
Before eying
Without...
Fix our faults
Rather than
Point others' out.
This is how
A truly great
Nation
Shall be from now
On...
Respect pays respect
Love, finds itself
Tolerance is acceptance
Of every life's worth.
To live and not
Die or be killed!
Thus together, we
Cam honestly
Be
Bharat Mahan!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
YOUR RIGHT
It's time...
Put thinking
Caps
On
And decide...
Make a choice
For a change
Or not
It's upto
You
To make that
Change
Should you
Wish
To!
It's time...
To exercise
Your
Right...
Let your voice
Be heard.
It's your right
To
Earn
That
What you want
So,
Vote!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
IN REVERENCE
Sing! Sing of
Your land
And mine...
Let the lyrics
Be words
Of
Praise
For every single
Minute
You live of
The land
Everyday!
Let the melody
Be
Like the winds
Blowing
Through it...
Land of your
Fathers' and
Land or mine...
You are the land
Of your
Peoples spread
Far and wide!
Let the beat
Be
In time with
All hearts
That it might
Resonate
And an echoe
Create...
An echo
Shaking the ground
Beneath
Your dancing, walking
Running feet
Causing
Tremors
All about!
Sing, o sing!
Louder you can
The better
The world
Will hear,
Your love for
The land
You so revere!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
WAR AT PLAY
From the ashes
We are reborn
Like Phoenixes
Bright and
Magical...
Within us
We have
Power
To wield
At will.
We seek no
Battles
No war
Is on our minds...
Yet we are
Struck
By man-made
Lightening
Destroying
Our lives...
Still, we rise!
Little do they
Know
That by killing
And plundering
Our souls
They create
New wholes...
These, once
Peace loving
No longer
Are so.
For who will
Not
Avenge
Destruction
With destruction?
Pain with pain?
Torture with
The same?
Yes we arise
From ashes
No longer just human
But
We now are
Beastly warriors!
Not worthy
To be among
Humane kind...
We are now
Beings
Of a
Warring world!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
WAR AT PLAY
From the ashes
We are reborn
Like Phoenixes
Bright and
Magical...
Within us
We have
Power
To wield
At will.
We seek no
Battles
No war
Is on our minds...
Yet we are
Struck
By man-made
Lightening
Destroying
Our lives...
Still, we rise!
Little do they
Know
That by killing
And plundering
Our souls
They create
New wholes...
These, once
Peace loving
No longer
Are so
For who won't
Avenge
Destruction
With destruction?
Pain with pain?
Torture with
The same?
Yes we arise
From ashes
No longer just human
But
We now are
Beastly warriors!
Not worthy
To be among
Humane kind!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
CHILD OF THE SOIL
Child of
The soil
Do you know
How you
Were born?
Love and lust
United
To pick on
Jealousy ...
The heartbreak
Of one
Gave you
Breath to
Come alive,
To breathe...
Child of
The soil
Do you know
Why you live
Where you
Do?
It is the
Place
From where
Your bloodline
Draws
Breath...
The land
Your forebears
Named
Home
After much
Fighting
And unrest!
Oh Child
Of
The soil
Shun not
Your identity
You are born
Bred
Ingenuity!
FREDERIKA MENEZES
