Million lights

Million lights

Buddha’s birthday

Mahavir’s nirvana day

Santa’s arrival

Hundreds of saints’ beatifications

Muhammad’s sacrifice

In million lights

Million candles

Salty dewdrops

Falling upon eyes

That’ll not witness those

million lights

a cake-walk over dead bodies

their unfinished stories

in the hands of those who burn

those million lights

the magic flames

turn lights into ashes

but those burnt pages

become hundreds of wands in the powerful hands

turn into lights

million lights