TRANSFORMING
TRANSITION
Dr. J. Bapu Reddy, IAS (Retd.)
Sprawling Deserts smile
with sprouting hopes
Seared sands stream
with springing aspirations
Lands that cradled ancient civilizations
seed the Times womb with futuristic dreams.
The gulf that separated the people
bridges hearts and minds
with electronic waves and primordial codes.
Iron curtains are raised
permitting the banned human freedom
to play in the flooding light
of transforming liberalism’s creative competition
at the global theatre.
Protection not for might but right
Recognition not for racial colour
but for the real merit
Respect not for the precept
but for the performance
A revolutionary value system
rallies round the transcending awareness
of a transient age vindicating
its evolutionary wisdom
A century bleeds with graping memories of savage wounds
The approaching horizon’s distance
from the receding jungles of darkness
and haunting shrieks of horrified history