Celebrating Independence

A fusion of flesh and blood
And their unified force,
To be like the sun,

Sovereign, and drawing
Her own energy and incandescence,
The resolve to be a heartbeat,

And we are still babies,
Just old enough, for a platinum anniversary,
A celebration of a shimmering element,

The glow of peace,
Which is like the full moon,
Primed for perfection,

And 70 is a good age, to look back,
At the birth of a nation,
That began as a silent movie,

And got her voice, a few years after,
And that collective voice, is our rasion d’etre,
The marrow of humanity,

An island in the sun,
A fledgling power in the silk road,
The larvae we are now,

And our impending metamorphosis,
To a breathtaking beautification,

To welcome the sovereign wings,
Of our destined,

Butterfly years.

Published by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems. View all posts by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)