--- A Soldier's Letter To Our Dear President

--- A Soldier's Letter To Our Dear President While we awaited the pay commission bounty The IAS got there first and now, President Aunty We have no choice but to be blunt We are third class citizens, though manning the front The bureaucrats who decide things for us Have truly shown their animus And we who defend our dear nation Have again been shown our lower station When the seventh pay commission comes around We will no doubt lose more ground Then Colonels would equal civilian clerks In salary, status and other perks Generals will wait on worn out chairs Outside IAS Officers' lairs A once proud service is now so degraded That though their uniforms still be braided They are demoralised and wait to retire And then take up their pens to fire At those they served all their life In times of peace and in times of strife The lesson from this, our children we tell Is that, if in life you want to do well And this, I am sure, every soldier endorses Do not ever join the forces Just become a doctor or a pleader Perhaps, even better, a political leader Or an IAS officer, with his red light Why face the enemy, why risk a fight When the nation you guard does not value you much And treats you merely like a handy crutch To support the government in civil disorder Or when the enemy threatens the border But when the time comes to share the pie They get all antsy and ask - why??? So Madam President, hear us out A change is going to come about And we, the most courageous of all Will soon be replaced by the petty and small Alas, your government would be squarely to blame For this avoidable national shame