Δευτέρα 22 Μαΐου 2023

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Had been withdrawn 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







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