Let There Be Peace In Manipur

The flare-up of the tension Let it quell In Manipur, Let there be peace And harmony, Let the communities co-exist With human virtues Helping each other in distress Rather than conflicting On some issue To be the bone of contention. Let there be shantih in Manipur, Let people live in harmony and peace, Let the fire extinguish it Paving the way for amicable talks And good human gestures! Who are the Kukis? Who are the Meiteis? Why do they keep quarrelling? When will the clashes end? Just for the ethnic divide People would be maligned Never did I admire it Down the ages In Manipur. On seeing the violence-hit areas Of battled Manipur And the communal flare damaging it, Felt I within, Can man be as such cruel For his selfish ends? Now the time has come For the Kuki and the Meitei to repent What they have done And to dress the wounds of history Rather than afflicting the people with, Inflicting pain, grief, sorrow? It is too much! The Kukis rallying, The Meiteis As a result the common people suffering Those who have nothing to do politics And to seek for, What do they want it to make Manipur? It is shantih, shantih That you want, I want, Shantih of mann, Shantih of tann, body, Mind, spirit and body, Burying the odds Think you at least of grieving humanity And dressing its wounds Moaning and groaning with pain.