The British Lost An Opportunity Poem by Prabir Gayen

The British Lost an opportunity

British ruled India
for two hundred years,
Long time they dominated
the world's most beautiful land,
They looted the most soft part
Of the world, the song of divinity.

No doubt they were educated,
Cultured and the most innovative,
Science and literature,
art and sculpture,
technology and Impetuosity,
British are proud down the ages
and eligible too,
Ruled the world with new
innovative thoughts and reasons.

Down the ages they reigned
With the light of thought and logic,
the art and literature,
British begot Spenser and Shakespeare,
Wordsworth and
Tennyson, Shelley and Yeats,
Keats, Dryden and Milton and
Many a bright star like Donne and Chaucer,
Rosette and Browning, Austin and Dickens.

Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton,
Rosalind Franklin, Michael Faraday
and many more thoughtful saints of science
Showed the light of knowledge
to entire humanity, fragrance of being genius
to serve the world,
The sweet blossoming of human consciousness
without doubt.

Looking at the vastness of Life,
The kaleidoscopic view of time,
The socioeconomic structure
of the then time and the country,
My heart feels a fresh anguish,
British should have served the poor
and the neglected people,
The destitute of the pure Land.

They ruled the land with pride,
Tortured the most vulnerable men,
women and children,
Twisted the soul of the country,
For two hundred years remained
an outsider and a mobster,
Embraced not the people who embraced them
for hundred years,
Without few exceptions British
was simply a pure Oppressor.

As an enlightened nation,
The most cultural citizen
of the world, The British had ample space
to serve the poor,
They should have become the angels
from the far away land,
They should at least follow their
thinkers and philosophers,
Who taught through their poetry
the message of love for humanity.

The British poets are famous for
singing the song for humanity,
Love and compassion are in every line
of Keats, Shelley and Byron,
Milton Justified the law of God,
Wordsworth was known as
a poet of nature and man,
A poet singing for common folk,
A poet whose heart was bubbling
with the grace of divine spur,
a pantheist and a philanthropist.

TheIndian people accepted
The British as a foreign guest,
With the fitting sense of hospitality
they embraced the outsiders with magnanimity,
Along with many uncivilised nations,
To British rulers too,
the Indians showed the spirit
of tolerance and acceptance.

Down the ages the invaders came,
Fought wars and looted the land,
India - as a divine land tolerated
the ignorant plunderers
with deep love and belongingness,
accepted them with merciful timbre
of nobility, Largess and majesty.

By deep rooted hatred and ignorance
The British Unleashed
The Preposterous torture
and atrocious ardor of altruism,
To Indian they were a tyrannous
tantrism, a filthy machine of disdain,
To them as a reaction of human nature
came into existence a genus of genius,
revolutionary leaders and patriots,
Out of Love for the innocent Indians
they fought and sacrificed
their precious lives
without hating the external guests
who ailed the poor Indian,
without thinking pros and cons.

The British ruled the vast territory,
The blessed land of the Almighty,
With liberal aplomb and
humanistic flame of wisdom,
They should rule the people
with severe warmth of heart,
They should love and accept
the poor gods and goddesses
and set an example to the whole world
an enlightened nation of art literature
and upright metaphysics,
England lost a great opportunity
to supply love and support for the
The most vulnerable people of the world,
an enlightened nation was blind
for two hundred years.

@prabir Gayen:
10 May,2020,2: 15 AM.