Ramnavami

You built a bridge, brick by brick
Across the Palk Strait
To recover you Love
From the hands of the enemy

Your followers are destroying, brick by brick
An entire "structure" in your place of birth
To recover their faith
From the hands of fellow humans.

You were busy,
Upkeeping Kshatriya Dharma
And showing the world
The art of righteous living

Your followers are busy
Debating whether you
failed Sita, by abandoning her-
Conveniently forgetting your virtues

You showed the world
That nothing else matters
Other than your Swadharma.

Your followers are showing the world
That nothing else matters
Other than your place of birth.

You believed and swore by
The fact that implicitly obeying
Your parents, is cool.

Your followers believe that
Swearing by Ravana,
Not by you, is cool.

Rock on, O Rama!
The world needs the high benchmarks
Left by you -
Just as a stark reminder of
How far we are moving away from you.