History's Peals of Laughter
Jodha Chandra Sanasam *
O, History!
You have a heart with evil intent!
Never now will it happen as you wish,
never ever again.
You can never ever be v
Leimarel, Panthoibee, or Thoibee either
no, not ever.
There, inside you, exists a malicious heart.
The war between the Greeks and the Trojans,
which metamorphosed Troy into a land horrible
of death, rotten blood decayed and decomposed
ended the lives of Achilles
and many, many Spartan heroes
their dead bodies dissipated into the soil of Troy;
did return Odysseus and a few followers
alive out of the massacre, destruction of lives.
Helen of the Greek palace, her charms enchanting
you would blame her of the war
with your peals of laughter brittle and sarcastic.
I will not blame them
Seeta, Draupadi or Helen
for the Lankan, Kurukshetra and Trojan wars,
nor Lady Archduke Ferdinand for the World War I
and Evan Braun or Magda Goebbels for the World War II
or Lady Mountbatten either, for the bloodshed
in Punjab and Bengal partitioned
nor Maipakpee in the Anglo-Manipuri war
nor Ethel Grimwood for the Manipur Disaster
in them pervaded love, truth and devotion.
It was you, History, the evil of all evils,
blood, sanguine-red, dribbling from your mouth
that hisses poison into men
and you thrill yourself
with peals of laughter brittle and sarcastic.
Is not it the animosity, divide,
destruction of art culture literature
great wars and genocide
with fetid putrid deaths scattered all around
that you ever crave for?
You wicked History!
You never ever stop
your peals of laughter brittle and sarcastic.
* Poem written by Prof Jodha Chandra Sanasam for Hueiyen Lanpao (English Edition)
This poem was webcasted on May 01 2014.
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