Peace Price

Carry out to the sea,
where your
drifting thoughts flow free.
Because this Sardar[1] land
is crafted with blood…
Guide us to a far distant land,
that only the heart can see.
There we shall paint a great portrait,
of what this world should be.
A place without senseless wars,
and human poverty.
Life without Justice
Is a low estate,--
Cowards shrinking
To an Iron Fate!
You journeyed…
Not for being an Iron Lady!
But for Peace through Justice is supreme;
We'll pay the price of war
to make it real.
A single word can
brighten the face
of many who knows
the value of words.
Ripened in silence,
silence, an immobile mobility
acquires a great energy for war.
But they will speak many,
beating around the bush
for such a lawless law
for the reason that
it is a “disguise war,”
a “violence to institute order”[2].

War is cut short by a word,
and a word heals the wounds,
and there's a word that changes
poison into butter and honey.
Follow the Way.
Don't be fooled
by what you already know.
Be watchful.
Mirror before you speak.
A foolish mouth can brand your soul.


Usham Rojio
19th November 2010



[1] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
[2] A. Bimol Akoijam argues that AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) is a “disguise war” or a “violence to institute order” to the people who doesn’t belong to the Indian state