Poems by Dr Jernail S Aanand / India

 

ILLUSORY 

Dr Jernail S Aanand

Whatever is happening 

Is driven by invisible dreams

The rich deal in power 

While for the poor 

Riches has no meaning 

Beyond sheer survival.

Beyond a square meal,

All wealth is a notional crime

Which breeds idolatry 

And parasites 

Who live on the blood 

Of others.

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THE FORMAL DECLARATION 

Jernail S Aanand 

The whole society had fallen to 

A fell disease 

Every cell was rotten

Winds wept passing through 

Measled leaves

Moments cursed themselves

After being exploited

To keep criminals alive.

Whenever a damsel was in distress

Or a child kidnapped, 

Or old parents 

In need of medicine

And the love of their wards

No good man arrived.

To keep faith and hope alive 

When the kings stripped their people

Of their essential rights 

And crushed all resistance

To unipolar rule,

There was none to stand up.

A few voices which rose

Were bribed, or otherwise silenced.

No poet, no scholar, no social reformer 

No moral philosopher

There was no Deus ex machina 

To unsettle evil 

And weave a way 

Out of contrived confusions

Evil, unchallenged in its sway, 

Most comfortably worked its way 

No fear of any resistance

No protest, 

People in the past were not so educated 

Who organized revolutions 

And brought Evil to its heels 

Now, things were clear 

People were well educated 

And trained in Personal Culture.

No feather was ruffled 

When all the agencies of the good 

Had been withdrawn 

And declared ultra vires.

People had become addicts to the 

Official non sense, 

They had stopped resisting,

And then acquiesced

When they were assured 

Gods had changed sides, 

And retired, 

Leaving the realms to the Neo Good 

In a corner of Heaven, 

People had gathered to mourn

The death of Goodness.

There are no Good People now.

All believe in wealth and power, 

And deal in contraband.

Hopes and Faith were hiding their face.

Satan and His deputies were seated 

In ceremonious chairs.

Gods were brought to the podium

And given a written script 

The arch God then declared,

We formally announce 

The fall of Goodness 

Henceforth, this world will be 

Governed by Satan. Unchallenged.

©Dr Jernail S Aanand

India