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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451520" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homage to the Common Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Step aside, <br>Kings and princes-<br>Hamlet, Lear and Othello, <br>Fictional tragic heroes, <br>For long <br>You have kept us<br>Mesmerised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here comes the common man, <br>Who watches in stupor<br>As his family is burnt alive.<br>The last time<br>He heard his<br>Dear wife’s voice<br>Was on the mobile, <br>Cinema hall is on fire, <br>There is no way<br>we can survive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So this is goodbye.<br>He wondered, <br>Is it first April? <br>No she wouldn’t play <br>Such a practical joke, <br>He realised with shock<br>He maniacally charged, <br>And helplessly watched</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flames leaping in the sky, <br>Panic struck, people <br>Jumping, just to die.<br>Later, in the mortuary, <br>He couldn’t find <br>His son or wife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Burnt beyond recognition, <br>He walked out<br>Like an apparition, <br>Saying to no one, <br>They are gone<br>And I live<br>Am overcome with guilt…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tragedy peeping <br>Out of his eyes<br>Those windows to the soul-<br>Having aged overnight<br>Unabashedly crying<br>I couldn’t even<br>Perform their last rites...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who wrote <br>Their infernal destiny? <br>Piteously he cried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is the common man<br>He survives.<br>He doesn't have the luxury<br>Of indulging in existential<br>Soliloquies- <br>To be or not to be <br>Like Hamlet, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And rises like a proverbial<br>Phoenix, and finds <br>A reason to live, <br>And smile through his tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This poem is dedicated to all those who lost their families to a cruel fate, in a fire that engulfed a cinema hall in Delhi, almost a decade ago<br> and all everyday heroes who have lost loved ones in man made and natural disasters. They are the real heroes who reconstruct their lives, and stoically move on, even smile and rediscover laughter and joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">23.09.08<br>Mamta</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mamta+Agarwal">Mamta Agarwal</a><div class=q>
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Kings and princes-
Hamlet, Lear and Othello, 
Fictional tragic heroes, 
For long 
You have kept us
Mesmerised.

Here comes the common man, 
Who watches in stupor
As his family is burnt alive.
The last time
He heard his
Dear wife’s v..."></div>
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