When you
have wept your grief, and smothered the last drop of tears you are completely exhausted,
lifeless, and nothing seems to matter.
What is
left is only the slain body of once a
proud nation in a bier, four terrorists in their fatigues
stand silently on guard at the four corners with their hands resting on
the steel rod of the T56 assault rifles kept standing before them. The red flag
with tiger head in a circle of bullets covers half of the bier. Some one had
thrown on the ground under the bier a half burnt lion flag. On the bier is a
black hand glove of the Queen Elizabeth which she took off to shake the hand of
a leader who is also responsible for the slain body lying in state inside the
bier.
The people
sad and grief stricken were walking away.
They knew that on the third day the fallen nation will not rise again
with the glory that it was before the 8th January, 2015. They were
returning to their homes to meditate and
pray . Sadly they pursued their evening walk talking over the events that led
to the unredeemable loss. Never had they been
so utterly disheartened hopeless and faithless, they were walking in the
shadow of the once victorious , peaceful and a fast developing nation, today
lying in a bier.
Their grief
could not be restrained and they wept as they walked on . They went together into their homes and
closed and fastened doors knowing that the fate of the nation might any time be
theirs . ( with apology to Luke 24-The
Walk to Emmaus)
At the bier
readied for state funeral.
There are
Catholic Bishops with their immaculate white gowns with the purple belt,
Mullahs with their long beards, and half naked Hindu pujaris in attendance. The once fluttering lion flags are no where
to be seen. What does it matter now .
It is the
TNA leader Sampathan the leader of the Opposition in charge of the burial ceremony. It is C.V.Wineswaran the Chief Minister of
NPC who is to deliver the funeral oration. Rauf Hakeem is waiting to take away
whatever would be left when every thing is over
An
important delegation with the USA State Secretary John Kerry representing the
President of USA along with Biswal and Robert O’Blake and many others occupy the front seats. The Sri Lanka
Also
occupying the front most seats are Modi Indian Prime Minister , Jayalalitha
seated next to him along side Hillary Clinton. There is also David Cameron with
the flag with which he flagged off the LTTE
torch relay to Geneva demanding awareness of
genocide in Sri Lanka 10 Downing
Street
However, the
people are not expected at the burial ceremony. Chandrika , Champika, Sobhita
Thero and Ratana Thero will come back when every thing is over hoping to resuscitate
a phantom Nation.
At the
funeral oration Wigneswaran, will not speak of democracy or separatism because they have got what they wanted.
Those
who voted for a change perhaps did not
expect this sudden turn of events. They still do
not know that it would be worse than it was when terrorism was assailing the nation. But it is
that Nation that survived the terrorist attacks that is now being prepared for
a state funeral. Bugles are already playing the Last Post.
Adieu Sri
Lanka I have no more tears to shed ………..May you be reborn again with the glory that was yours before.
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