(Lines composed at the time of the civil uprising in Libya - protesting against the absolute autocratic regime of Muammar Gaddafi.)

Goes the night,
With murky shadows!
Trailing behind,
Comes the uncertain dawn,
And the infra day -
Nervous to bear the regime's
Iron-fisted might.
The world sees Gaddafi
In countless tenses:
Too far gone with the succession
Of greed and betrayal.
No exclamations will be adequate -
To explain why the corrupted grandeur
Of the tyrant demands immortality -
As he slaughters his own people!

Hai! Hai! Gaddafi.
Hai! Hai! Gaddafi.
You are narrating to the nations -
The meaning of a dictator.

Dubai
3rd March 2011

Geeta Chhabra

Glossary.
Hai! Hai! -- is a form of a wail or a lamentation - in the Hindi language.