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A festival of lights
Hello, this is about the Indian Hindu festival called Diwali. It is said that Lord Rama beat King Ravana, who had kidnapped his wife Sita in an epic battle written in the Ramayana. The end of Nav-Ratri, or 9 days is Dussehra which marks the death of Ravana. Diwali is celebrated as the victorious return of King Rama, back to his homeland, Ayodhya from which he was exiled for 14 years. Thousands of households light lamps, distribute sweets and decorate their houses during this festival. They also bust tonnes of crackers that are made out of child labour This is all you need to know for my poem.
Do DM for any clarifications or if you know some exciting Diwali stories :)
Here comes the festival of lights
An epic battle, but not of good vs evil is the fight
Some call Diwali as the trounce of Lord Rama over the King of Lanka
But some claim it was the whims of a patriarchal strife
Of Lord Rama taking claim over his wife
All this said and done
Diwali may call for celebration and fun
But if you talk about the triumphs of good over bad
Then busting crackers will only make your worth undone
The fumes of the crackers tell me a story
Not of the wishful demon, or the exiled King
they tell me a story of the guilt in which they live
surviving of burnt hands of the young kin
The fumes are spirits of the dying children
The toxic flames engulfing the lives, innocent
The fumes tell me the stories of the chocked lungs
of people dying every day, of the earth being expunged
They are the spirits of the people, of the past, of the dead
Releasing them in air will only send messages of despair
Celebrate with love and joy and happiness
Celebrate with science, experiments, laboratories
But don't celebrate, when the basis of your celebration is on the corpses of the young
Don't celebrate good, when the celebration itself turns you evil
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