IF MARCUS ANTONIUS COME AGAIN

 

 

Friends, Indians, countrymen, lend me your ears:

I come to bury her, not to praise her.

The evil that men do live after them

The good is oft interred with their bones

So let it be her.

 

The noble Beant singh hath told you

She was dictatorial! Ambitious! Undemocratic!

If it were so, it was a grievous fault;

and grievously hath she answered it.

and Beant singh is an honourable man.

 

I saw not, her refusing the crown ever

but crown was often thrust upon her.

she never wept with the poor

For she was in tears bankrupt

Did this prove her unsympathetic or undemocratic?

 

Now it is winter

snow falls and balls for nothing

news ends in news

Zero ends in zero

Endless ends in endless.

 

Oh! Patriots! be not excited!

Oh! friends! be quiet! be self-controlled!

look......here......this one! .......this!...

Are the mortal depths dug by beant singh

If you have tears, shed them now.

 

She would have consoled Mahatma in time 

For he only received three

She but thirty nearly

A brute tribute of her beloved nation.Oh! friends!

 

Indians! countrymen! lend me your ears

I come to bury her, not to praise her.

Oh! God! My lord! What do I see?

Sword!....Pistol!....Stun gun!......Riffle!......

Please friends! .....Patriots!.....Don’t kill me

Oh!...horrible.....what cracks!.......penetrates........

 

 

 

 

REFERENCE

*The great orator, Mark Anthony’s speech.(julius Caesar-William Shakespeare)

*Mrs.Indira Gandhi was assassinated on October 1984.

*The suspected Assassin.

 

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