Ratnakar Mandlik - Pledge

Many a wars the freedom fighters fought
To free you motherland from shackels of slavery
Displaying rare couragethey martyred with bravery
And threw to the winds their dear ones lot.

Significance of the freedom they did know
Gen next inherited it and started to it blow
Blurring, thus, in slavery and freedom boundary
Making hard earned freedom virtual and imaginary.

For common man freedom has become illusory
Its fruits were reaped, though, by few coteries
Governed by selfishness and inhuman qualities
Who are ruled by even the setanic mentalities.

We pledge oh motherland on this Valentine Day
To regain true freedom, for you, in noble way.

---Ratnakar D Mandlik

Ratnakar Mandlik

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