Boom! Boom! The sound of guns
Shatter the midnight silence
Boom! Boom! Comes the marauding
Call of shameless violence.
Boom! Boom! The sound falls flat
On the shattered bodies lying
Boom! Boom! The valleys echo
As dawn steals in before time.
Boom! Boom! “They’re at it again” –
The hills whisper to each other;
Boom! Boom! And frightened children
Crawl closer to their mothers.
Boom! Boom! The shells should’ve pierced
The traitor’s heartless breast –
Boom! Boom! And so many sons
Of India, yet again, laid to rest.
Boom! Boom! And we realise –
Peace is a passing dream;
Boom! Boom! They prove again
That violence is mainstream.
Boom! Boom! The crossfire continues
As empty shells hit the ground;
Boom! Boom! Amid blood and fire
Soldiers fall without a sound.
Boom! Boom! The borders cry,
“Has terrorism no end?
Boom! Boom! How many more innocents
Need we, to their deaths, send?”
BERYL 