ADIEU
K. M. Kale
Adieu twentieth century! adieu
Lend yourself to post mortem review
Adieu to your Hitlers and Hiroshimas
To the ghastly vistas of two world wars
To frenzied arms race and cold wars
To the battle taken to the stars
To the apartheid and atrocities
To racialism and disparities
To the python of industrial pollution
Threatening to devour the entire evolution.
Hail! Twenty- first century! hail
Let all around good sense prevail
Usher in a new era of peace
Dormant creative forces in man release
Inspire the Muse so to write
That future becomes golden bright
That people among them cease to fight.
And everyone duly gets his right
That anarchy yields to the rule of law
That there is perfection without a flaw.