Varanasi Blasts | A tribute to Baby Swastika Sharma

In the Memory of baby Swastika,

With tears…
From the Core of Fierce…..

My Love Swastika,

I dropped a few tears for you,
but it dried before it reached the ground.
These tears cannot sustain
The heat of my heart burning.
I assure you: your death will not be forgotten
By anyone on this this side or that side.
We will revenge your death,
in this life or next.
Till the Jihadis are burnt to ashes
And till they disappear from this world.
When you reach the heaven abode,
Please tell the Almighty: My brothers are still there.

– Murali-Devavrata

Swastika Sharma, who died in Varanasi bomb blasts would have turned two years old on 18 December. The only child of her parents, she was sitting on her mother’s lap when the blast occurred.

“A pellet hit her in the head and she fell down. Then she got trampled in the stampede,” said her uncle Sanjay Sharma. The child was rushed to the Laxmi Narayan Marwari Hindu Hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival.

Source: Hindu Existence Blog ||Indian Express