"Pain" & "Die"ry

  March arrived and I started my journey back home in a jolly mood After spending a comfortable winter in the lovely place of Hirakud With a wish again to return next winter, here or perhaps some other place India is a beautiful country, after all, can’t find anywhere such solace My country is beautiful too, but the winters harsh A bird that I am, can’t dare to bear the weather’s wrath   But as I started my travel, I sensed things were not the same as they were Where there was peace before, Oh! How tensed people were The students worried about jobs in future, the govt about what steps to take I saw some mothers crying for their children, a fear of separation, I saw fathers concerned about the safety of their sons and daughters But what was wrong, what was happening, it was beyond my comprehension   I crossed India into Pakistan and there was the same old power game, same instability I went then into Central Asia, and it was all great, with lo...