Never:
The young in their formative phase
Acquiring worth that in fact weighs
Inspiring people to adopt new ways
For sharing benefits of modern age. Ever:
The ageing bums who mostly fumble
And in race for power often tumble
Reluctant to quit the poll gamble
Crazy still for the next scramble.
The corrupt clique of power-seekers
In saintly garbs, a pack of cheaters
Mother slaying a pregnant daughter
To flaunt her sway on tribal power.
Those treating religion as profession
Riding haughtily in chariot procession
Managing at the halts a huge reception
For glorifying a vile hidden intention.
Soliciting, thus, the favour of
ballots
Misquoting viciously religious tenets
Threatening with tridents and barrels
Or alluding to similar lurking perils.
Exploiting power with crafty mettle
Usurping the funds meant for cattle
Hijack easily the electoral wrestle
Treating it as mere domestic hassle.
Researchers tuned to the leftist drums
Seldom linked with rural life or slums
Given to project ideologic din and hum
Revising their assessment now and then.
Surely:
Such be condemned and criticized
Caricatured as well as satirized
Their misdeeds be firmly satirized,
To keep the masses well apprised.
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(2005)
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