A raindrop falls,

hits the ground,

disintegrates

and is no more.

The last light of the day leaves

Imagine a home in the country

Imagine a garden, rose beds

Think of the sun in the flowers,

Imagine your children playing,

Carefree and happy.

Are the seams in your shirt straight?

Imagine a girl who wanted to live…

 

Perhaps, just like you and me

And, as you sit now in you chair and read this

She is no more.

I have heard of Auschwitz,

Where smell of death hangs in the air

Where men, women, children were once burnt alive

Auschwitz is still alive,

In a country with gardens and rose beds,

In a country with sun in the flowers

In a country where she is still alive

To meet a million more deaths.

Saptarshi Basu is a gold medallist in Mechanical Engineering and has worked in the IT industry for the last eight years. However, writing has always been his first love, his passion. His debut novel-Love (Logic) and the God’s Algorithm is now a national best seller in Infibeam, a premier online store. His second novel, Autumn In My Heartwas published by Vitasta Publishing with Times Group in November’11. He maintains a blog http://saptak-firsttry.blogspot.in/ and writes screenplays for movies and columns for some online magazines.

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