Men, who can never conceive
Decide on whether a woman
Can abort a child or not!
The second amendment is more important
Than countless lives
Extinguished in their prime!
Real people are expendable
In defending imaginary beings
In the name of religion!
Lives of 5 individuals
Below the Atlantic
Are worth more than
800 in the Mediterranean!
Five killed in France
Is headlines, while
A thousand dead in Mogadishu
Is on page 5!
A War in Mainland Europe
Is more newsworthy
Than wars in Afghanistan, Sudan or
Anywhere in Africa!
Refugees are persecuted
Instead of being protected!
Say no to small boats
After all
They have no votes!
Make (insert nation name) Great Again
Distort history and lie regularly
Reward cruelty and punish
honesty.
Right-wing is now the RIGHT wing
Nationalism triumphs logic
Myopia is the new vision
Climate change is a hoax
Vaccines kill people
Books spoil kids
So ban them
(The books, not the kids!)
Cheating is good
So long as you are not caught
So, cheat cleverly!
When did we become like this?
Or, have we always been like this?
I have been thinking long and hard
Trying to address the cause
Hoping to find an answer
And
I am running toward the sun
Chasing my shadow!
Hard hitting. You keep on surprising ahh..maddening me!! Such obvious things, why can not I or others observe it, feel it in the first place? Beautifully penned.
ReplyDeleteThnaks Uday. You are kind, as usual.
ReplyDeleteAdd long as "it does not affect me" mentality exists nothing will change. They easily forget the fact that when it finally happens to them, like him none will bother
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ReplyDeleteSadly sensitive souls and effective communicator like you are a declining tribe today
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