# ONE DAY..

Some days are marked, etched on the calendar permanently, transcending nations, races, hopefully prejudices and misconceptions, bigotries that seem to rule the day.

Days of hope and joy and then days some, when the faith seems lost, buried in a rubble, smouldering, pungent and bitter, overshadowing the sun and the skies blue above us.

September is a cruel month and its memories of a day like today make us question why? Who would do this? Who could do this? Why do they do this?

Sometimes the verses from the past haunt us – William Shakespeare in the words of Shylock ~ ‘If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.’

Reason enough for some it would seem. 

Thirteen years now since the attack on the cities of one of the largest nations in the world. Casualties in the thousands, including one Jupiter Yambem of Manipur. 

Thirteenth of September,1993, Manipur, Black Day, casualties over a hundred souls, the single largest massacre, a fallout of the ethnic clashes of identity politics between two tribal groups.

So the question then should not be the why? Never the why. Rather it is to be a statement. 

To resolve. To heal. To persevere and to do more than just endure. For we are greater than, stronger than, the days that define us; we, as a nation, as a people, we,first of all as better, as nobler, as humane, as human...

# ONE DAY..

Though now I see through a fog dimly

Yet soon I shall see face to face, clearly

Touch, see, feel your love completely.

One day love’s labour shall be met,

Fulfilled totally

So though, now I walk and wait silently

Persevere and persist, untiringly

I know this penance mine shall

Bear fruit eventually.

One day veils will be torn,

Cast down asunder

One day when tears will be no more

And nights no more the shade of black,

One day and it shall come

When you will be mine

Forever mine,

Always, forever