This goes out to all those who crack jokes on Sikhs, not caring for the kind of effect it has on the minds of kids, teenagers and adults. It is being posted as a reminder for those who have either don't know their own history, or that of the Sikhs. It is being posted as a reminder for those who have either forgotten their own history, or that of the Sikhs. And it is being posted with the hope that "Sikh mocking" readers of this poem will mend their ways in future.
Last warning
You heard of Santa and Banta, and all their jokes
Did you ever try to know their ancestral folks?
The name Khushwant Singh and his joke book makes you smile
What about Baba Banda Singh Bahadur or Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa who were feared by the vile?
Giani Zail Singh and Manmohan Singh have enough pictures today
Do you remember Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora who saved your yesterday?
The tricolored flag that you fly all over this esteemed nation
Bears the blood of Kartaar, Bhagat and Udham who brought all elation
Does the name Saragarhi ring a bell in your mind?
Or has your thankless memory fooled and made you blind?
How dare you forget that bloody Kargil war
Where the martyrs were the sons of a Kaur
How much you rejoiced when they conquered Tiger Hills
Defeated an enemy who brutally tortures and kills
Standing next to the flag, with the nation celebrating wild
Were the turbaned soldiers who stood there and smiled
You relish stories of stupidity portraying a Sikh as a joker
How easily you forgot their countless tales of valor
We have had enough of taunts, pranks and jokes of yours
You don’t want to mess with us Singhs and Kaurs
Don’t wreck your future by forgetting your past
Thanklessness brings severe misery fast
We are tender like a rose, yet harder than steel
You can tear us apart, but never make us kneel
Your jokes may harm a few weaklings
For you never met some real tough Singhs
So fear the day they stand before your eyes
They before whom the fear of death dies
Your jokes have launched their share of attack
Now quit or watch the Singhs coming to pay you back
~ Mehtab Singh
April 27, 2007
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਬਚਨਕਮਾਵਣੇਸਚਾਏਹੁਵੀਚਾਰੁ॥