Is one corridor enough?
Can this artificial umbilical link
nourish a new amity?

The Punjab Guru Nanak knew
is divided like Kartarpur itself,  
one half on each side of the river Ravi.

Division was not what the Guru preached.
He practiced co-existence, not hate.  
He never scissored but sewed your community
with mine, and mine with a different other.

Divisive interests have torn
his cloak to shreds, his words bent
into tools of political ingenuity.

Bala, Mardana and Guru Nanak Dev
live within us still as Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs:
a trinity of irreligious hostility.

©  F. S. AIJAZUDDIN 

1 November 2019.