HOLI HAS COME

                            HOLI HAS COME

Holi has come with gift of hues 

Of hope and happiness,

Of love and kindness,

Of truth and togetherness...
Let her come in,
Let her spray the sprinkles of
'Sanjivani'

On our parched up skin

That shelters our captive self 

Solitary within. 
Let her each flow of 

The chromatic splashes

Sweep through 

And unite the divided souls 

Of the human race;
With smiles laced on our lips,
With a spring-borne pieteousness

Pouring out of our heart, mind, and body,

Let's greet this harbinger of peace
And leveller of humanity in;
Let her spread all over
Her brilliant rainbows of pleasure...

                                -- N P Samal