Bringing History to the Limelight | Indunil Madhusankha

In no small abundance   
 their history has much bloodshed and massacre
 to hail to the whole world
 as their unfailing achievement

 More than thousands and thousands of lives
 was their thirst for power    
 that saw mere nothingness
 The pages of its blood-inscribed chronicle
 countless in numbers with accounts on
 sinister eyesores
 Bombs, guns, shells, bullets and all other explosives
 Synthetic man eaters
 not leaving even the infants

 Once the bodies blasted into tiny flesh pieces,
 the blood sprayed upwards and
 mingled into a pool on which the fragments of flesh
 swam around in search of renascence   

 They saw blood steeped flesh cords
 hanging out of newly committed wounds
 on their own bodies
 A few minutes before the irrevocable destiny

 Foul smelling pale corpses like carcass
 mounded on streets, pavements, schools, and
 playgrounds like rotting stagnant fish
 In abattoirs, coils and coils of barbed iron wires
 tightened round their bodies
 while trails of blood poured down

 The dead if possible would make a ladder of themselves
 and descend down from heaven
 into the earth to unveil the torture
 they underwent
 that sounds inexplicable in words

 The chunk of hideous hostilities,
 may be you yearn to forget
 Yet there surfaces a difficulty
 for the fright has entered into your bloodstream
 and runs perennially throughout the body
 If the dead history
 just simply evaporates from your memory,
 the utter unawareness may lead to
 a smouldering of the past scars
 So let its memory pass
 from generation to generation
 even to the posterity
 Don’t let this sleeping dog lie
 for at this point ignorance is not bliss
 and may result in
 unpredictable, tremendous jeopardy

 B. H. Indunil Madhusankha is currently an undergraduate in the Faculty of Science of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. While his major involvement is with the areas of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, he pursues a successful writing career as a poet and content writer. He has been able to clinch several awards from some National Level English Essay Competitions. Also, Indunil has written a volume of poetry entitled, “Oasis” which explores diverse dimensions of the society and he has been published in several international anthologies. Moreover, he has undertaken research projects pertaining to the areas of ELT and Sri Lankan Literature in English.