We Are Indomitable

Half of Odisha is under water

all rivers in spiteful spate

the Mahanadi too is overflowing

Men women crouch in fear

no news is this only memory revival

the great annual ritual

crowds love

Hurricane storms

thunder strikes

love this ancient land

of proud Odia

who has never surrounded

to these fake lovers.

 

Floods storms come and go

we know how to ride

the rise and swell

the cruel search of

nature’s fury to bow to her

hold her in reverence

for we know her anger

is  an act of love .

Our spirit rises

we stop the sea

we make the rain gods

go back  after taking a few lives:

Our appeasing sacrifice.

 

Nature is more human

more generous and kind

than the marauders who kill

all innocence, destroy out deities

loot our nourished prosperity

we are alive we are powerful

we have defied the invaders

we will now rise with our love

for man’s future.

Sabita Sahu