There is a ‘rumored fountain’ in a well

Which is waiting for a ‘story’ to tell

The ‘story’ is baffling the whole nation

That how it could fool a people for twenty generation

The story tells that man tries to betray his fellow humans in every age

And he often does it through religious rituals, sometimes a prophet or a sage

And if he fears that his story gets caught

Then he creates a law that his feelings are getting hurt

Half truths are banal and whether one has eyes or not, can be seen by everyone

It is ‘elementary’ as one has to only know the difference between a new marble and an ancient stone

Half truths don’t need big arguments to disprove it

This time it surfaced when someone stretched his commonsense a bit

Memory has three colors, black for lie, grey to cover and truth for white

Here the truth is black, lie is white and it is just opposite

Those who might take time to realize

They may feel that their conscience will capsize

There is a new term ‘milord’ on the scene that I now hear

Men of wisdom who tell me about things what I, an average Indian, shouldn’t complain but bear

The milords as usual take their own time to separate the issue of ‘black and white’

Even if it drags and makes two generations loose their eyesight

Truth is simple and has surfaced from soil, air or water in every age

A new prayer building or a water body can never hide the past to make a history’s new page

Dirty water rubbed the stone for centuries and my pain is too big to capture in a single verse

But I wonder if it makes a difference as it rubbed against the one who absorbed the poison of the universe

Those who washed their hands and feet, even knowingly to purify themselves in that water

Didn’t they know that the sins of the forefather catches up with the descendants centuries later

What will it take to purify the mind and the soul of a people who may have done it knowingly

Which God will be upset more, ‘the only one’ or ‘the Baba’, that for some is the question

The truth is God is sad seeing the plight of his children

He wonders if his children will be able to live in peace after seeing the truth

There is a debate going on in heaven right now as to why man to man doesn’t heal and soothe

My heart knows this is not a physical fountain but I wish to turn it into a fountain of insight

One that gives courage and wisdom to some so that our future generation do not need to fight

For that we have to remove our blindfolds because everytime God does not give us a new eyesight

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