Showing posts with label citizenship amendment act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citizenship amendment act. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Rain of Protests

It rains for hours
in Delhi​!
The drops,​ young scholars​,
​enlighten all with free will;
​they join forces, 
might above em old men
hurling soggy, blood-stained
papers balls, 
The officers call it Section 144​.
​Sound familiar?​

It rains, relentless,
down on anarchy,
carrying vigour from the sea,
​​free will from the plains
and vision from the hills​;
the unified front,
a weather to break​ barriers
and inhuman statutes.​

The storm ​wash​es​ dirt and grime
from the winter leaves,
​cleanses the leathered
conscience of existence​.​

​It ​washes off masks,
reveals the hidden mob
and their savage tone,​
but let​s​ the blood stains remain​;​
​to ​glow in the glare
​of those ​billion flames
​lit ​for a cause beyond
amendments, acts and atrocity.

It rains for hours
in Delhi!


Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Indian Identity Strife

I​ forgot my ID once,
it is a tree now back home,
in my backyard.
... My identification marks,
​birth scars, dots and dotcoms,
are under a blanket
where it hides, 
alongside some books, 
a moral compass, an ethnic passport,
and the Indian constitution.

They await judgement,
for free will is not theirs,
not anymore,
not on these streets.

-- Leslie

Pic: Courtesy DNA