Where the Mind is full of fear -poolabala

Where the mind is full of fear

Where the mind is full of fear 

and the head is held low 

Where the knowledge is unimportant 

and world is stolen by internet  

Where people survive as groups 

in social media where words come out 

from preposterous chat by impostors

where ceaseless prowling stretches its arms

towards abduction where thinking 

is permanently damaged  

Where logic ceases and thinking dies

where education has no meaning

where personality succumbs to hero worship

where caste thrives and  corruption flourishes

where religion rules the senses 

where  tradition serves the purpose of exploitation 

where the mind is led forward by politics 

into ever shrinking thought and faction,

 into the nation of half alive zombies

 my father,  my country has awoken.    - poolabala

                                                                                      

Where the mind is without fear - -Rabindranath Tagore

  

Where the mind is without fear and 

the head is held high 

where the world has not been broken up

into fragments by narrow domestic walls

where words come out from the depth of truth

where tireless striving  stretches its arms 

 towards perfection 

where the clear stream of reason 

has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit 

where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action 

Into that heaven of freedom, 

my father let my country awake.