English Literature – Poetry ☆ Futility of the War… ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.

We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Futility of the War… ~”.  We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji (who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages) for this beautiful translation and his artwork.) 

~ Futility of the War… ~ 

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War’s dark legacy is a blazing trail of pain

Devastation of humanity, results but in vain

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East or West, the flowing blood is the same

Peace’s fragile voice, strangulates in flame

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Cities crumble, anguished humanity laments

With prosperity shattered, even hope retreats

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Lives are devastated, fortune gets torn apart

Hunger & fear, envelopes the desperate heart

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When war itself is a problem, causing divide

What amiable solutions can it ever provide?

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Bloodshed and firestorm that rain only misery,

Causing utmost hunger, doomsday and penury

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Tanks roll forth, or retreat in an utter disarray

Leaving the scars that would never fade away

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Let the victor triumph, but with a hollow claim

But precious lives get lost forever in this game

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O’ Noble human, so it’s better that war is averted

Let’s choose the compassion and empathy’s light

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For our shared empathetic world & humanity sake

Let’s spread shining love, banishing gloomy night

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM