My motherland was pleading again for mercy,
the British were cruel and bloodthirsty,
they ordered to choose the road of compliance,
I selected the path of painful defiance.
Exorbitant charges ruined the peasants,
prayers were made to the heavens,
a call in me to stand for the right,
I started a movement with all my might.
The state of my brothers was just terrible,
discrimination caused was unbearable,
I was commanded to bow my head,
but I chose to get beheaded instead.
Today my nation is adorned with victory,
my story has become a part of its history,
I wonder from above what would have happened,
if the road I had chosen I had abandoned.
No Greater Love
Sharletl Alvares
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 05/15/2019
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Poem topics: discrimination, history, today, head, mercy, story, movement, terrible, victory, stand, nation, chosen, defiance, choose, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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