SMILES GARLANDED WITH MARIGOLDS
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SMILES GARLANDED WITH MARIGOLDS
(Inspired from true stories of suicides before the formation of Telangana state in India)
Fraction of life
Left with those parents
Living with drooping shoulders and
Blurred both worlds
Can only stare the mourning oval flame
Blinking in front of an everlasting smile
Seen everywhere in the patchy visual field
Those everlasting smiles garlanded with marigold flowers
The oval flame
Ever releases never ending streams
Restlessly tangled on coves
The oval flame
Changes size and shape
With changing dawn and dusk wind and weathers
The shadow of Banyan trees
Gave them no more peace
Pink blossoms and scent of jasmines
Cannot bring back those historic smiles
The smiles garlanded with marigolds
Shadows 10 districts Telangana flags
With life and breathe
Awaiting precession melody in burial grounds
Those parents cannot sing
Triumph of Telangana songs
Before joining their loved ones
Too far in mighty heavens