Red Star
Bishnu De
On your birth, the red star rose
Unfaded earth raised high her arms
Uchchaisraba* neighed
Orion struck up a classical tune
Rudra’s laughter, the fire of Uma’s love
Tremble in the dancing postures of your arms
She-demons spread illusions everywhere
They know you not, oh Kumar
Let them wreck riots, let blood redden soil
Let necks be hewn in villages and markets
Let a hundred bastions rise in hill and town
Comets at the end are severed by the red stroke of te star.
Spies hover incessantly n sky and air
Shall Pegasus stop flying in fear?
Hundred soldiers roam over fields and roads
Shall your heart’s steed halt hence?
The blood of heroes and the tears of mothers
Drain the seas of time for eons
Who will halt the victory arch by trick or force
In blind bogs, in mud banks?
We heard of a swollen river in a distant land
The king’s men blocked it with a mud bank.
The waters flooed the bank. History eternal
Runs like the Thames, Who can halt it?
Let bullets fly and hundred lashes fall
In Bengal’s villages, hills and Kolkata
Yet, Kumar, runs your steed
Fleeter of foot than the electric tram.
In your two eyes bur the Red Star
Fiery fists in raised arms
Demons of all lands clueless
Running helter skelter.
In vain is spread trail of red blood
In village, port andmarket the Red Star of birth
Shines along your footsteps
Lights up in all lands with brave wing stolen
Your horse’s shoe has not, shall not come off
That expedition is beaten in the steel of life.
Hence, unvanquishable victory songs play in your arms
In the land of fearful friends.
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