So I have borrowed few words

No, not from the dictionary of civilization

Yet civilized enough in their own terms

At first they observed my intentions

Diving deep into my desires and design

Perhaps to measure my honesty or hypocrisy

The day was bright as usual like our lies

Everywhere the newspapers were shouting

As much as they have been instructed

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Sleepless nights and the

Monsoon rain, drops after drops

Sharing little secrets besides

Greenwood trees. All alone!

I, like the other homo sapiens

Behind the closed doors with

Abandoned theories of truth

In conversation with myself.

Under all the hidden floors

History with frozen steps

May start its own story

Hushed and covered up!

The obvious is ...

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We don’t trust them.
Those giants who rule the Earth;
those fallen ones who stole our dominion.

We don’t trust them.
Those royal descendants of “gods”;
those of the divine blood line.

Why should we trust them?
They live in castles even today,
while we still cower in caves.

Why should we trust them?
From days of old,
we die in their wars,
we beg to consume what they own.

Why sh...

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Britain.

Find an island teetered

On frightened migrants, barrels of oil, 

And African diamonds.

Find a child swathed in red water, 

defiled by the law of the man up top,

pockets heavy, conscience ready

to burn and claw at power

To grovel, devour

To fester in Westminster

the cries of innocents 

talked around, spat on

With self-serving ambivalence

A game of bla...

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