Who Is the Offender?
11.
Do we need the Satan
Anymore?
Do we need his followers
To contest him
In setting new standards
Of hate, crime and …
For Heaven’s Presidency???!!!
……
Let
Punishment
Take over
All
Crimes
Against
Man!
Let the fire birds cross the
Sky
Spitting fire
On the Satan’s followers
So as their ashes
Fly across the Horizon
Only to disappear
Behind the fire birds’
Trail…
……
12.
No fire ball
To drop on us
No fire birds
To be butchered
And turned into
Balls of fire
Falling off the sky
To break our hearts.
…
No ‘Tamanna*-s’ to be
Bombed
To
Death.
Do we need the Satan
Anymore?
Do we need his followers
To contest him
In setting new standards
Of hate, crime and …
For Heaven’s Presidency???!!!
……
Let
Punishment
Take over
All
Crimes
Against
Man!
Let the fire birds cross the
Sky
Spitting fire
On the Satan’s followers
So as their ashes
Fly across the Horizon
Only to disappear
Behind the fire birds’
Trail…
……
12.
No fire ball
To drop on us
No fire birds
To be butchered
And turned into
Balls of fire
Falling off the sky
To break our hearts.
…
No ‘Tamanna*-s’ to be
Bombed
To
Death.
Author’s note: These’re 20 short prose poems grouped into 10 pairs, with each pair while depicting the ‘darkness’ around us, is readying us, as if, for a brighter future and praying for it’s arrival!
*Tamanna: It’s a Hindi word, which means ‘desire/dream/ want/resolve… etc..’
It’s also the name of a Class-IV school girl, who was bombed to death, in recent past, in a village in West Bengal, by revellers, who were celebrating ‘victory’ of the ruling party, in a recent by-election. Tamanna’s brutal murder has given rise to mass condemnation, loud protests and never-ending meetings and rallies in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal.
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