Our martyrs, blown up in enemy bombs

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness,"

barge into heated debates about it

sorely insist almost every day, but

barely practice, d' dictum we preach

Often spill pieces of trash on d' road,

in d' streets while casually loitering

and slyly drop d' wrappers, but keep

own home upright than surroundings

Let go of one well-kept environment,

Swatch- Bharat, never taken seriously

suited only for propaganda purposes,

tough to execute, of little benefit really

But he did something too spectacular,

entirely unexpected in a public place

d' next generation, socially conscious,

probably better in d' cleanliness race

D' young guy with plugged earphones,

pulled d' water bottle from d' backpack

and dropped his lunch box by chance,

on the floor, spilled the whole content

Not an unusual scene in the metros,

where everyone rushes to the office

tends to stuff the bags haphazardly,

unable to give much attention to this

When something ugly ever happens,

the culprit runs away from the scene

as if a crime committed, escapes fast,

and wash the hands off d' happening

D' crowd expected he'll walk away from

the food spilled on d' floor in a moment

but with pages torn from his notebook,

picked it up from d' metro floor PVC mat

Lifted d' let out food into a paper cover

and surprisingly went one step further

with d' handkerchief wiped d' remnants,

till the floor looked as clean as before

D' commuters applauded ceaselessly,

admired the act of that young person

a great sense of responsibility in him,

got appreciated without any hesitation

So conscious about the surroundings,

steadily encourages countless others

actively works for a clean surrounding,

to make India much cleaner and better

Corruption got accepted as a system

d' matinee idols were the inspirations

things, changing in rapid succession,

advancing towards a brighter nation

Our cops indeed the real-life heroes,

paid much less than on-screen actors

sacrifice life to safeguard the country,

they die, d' people aren't even aware

Always very bewitching to d' public,

100s of retakes, d' best shot chosen

no retakes, no re-taps in d' cops' life,

one mistake, d' precious life, is gone

Dead 'n' buried' and 'forgotten soon,

maybe in a day/ maximum of a week

but it's a headline, despairing news,

when a film hero by chance falls sick

Cops ignored, but cricketers, actors,

dirty politicians snatch the limelight,

if cops sacrifice their life to save us,

d' politicians tell, they get paid for it

No role models to citizens of India,

whom to accept as d' real hero here

never a film hero nor a foul politician,

always a doctor, farmer, or a soldier

Farmers toil hard, cultivate food for us,

soldiers protect us from the terrorists

people die of diseases and pandemics,

if doctors take no risk never sacrifice

The true heroes deserve your homage,

celebrities' glamour, needn't care much

why highlight the blown-up characters

while d' real heroes,

our martyrs, blown up in enemy bombs