(Dedicated to true security for the Human Race – Deepak
Sarkar, www.kolki.com)
‘National security’!
Am I part of it?
I am one of the millions medically uninsured
Out of census homeless
Suffering from inflationary joblessness
Prisoners whose voices blocked by thick wall cells
Suffering from malnutrition as poor children
Succumbed to surgery guarded by malpractice insurance
Drink milk infected with injected hormones
Eat meat full of chemicals and antibiotics unknown
Work for minimum wage not enough for freedom!
I can be a statistics any day -
As one of the millions
dead from auto accidents
Patient with AIDS, SAR, or injury from police chase!
From heart attack eating fried food in fast food
chains
Gun related homicides or neighbourhood car race!
As soldier murdered in friendly fire as collateral
damages
Victim of genetically modified food on the grocery shelf
Ill-fated passenger of a flight terminated from cell
Or just being in wrong time at the wrong place!
In a country of milk and honey -
I am one of the millions who go to bed hungry!
I am a good citizen, I love my nation!
I always played by the rules of the nobles!
Watched tax money reward billions for national
interests
Trillions in military budget remain unaccounted
A few benefits immensely from a plundered ‘Stock Market’!
When citizens like me suffer from basic necessity –
Of guaranteed food,
shelter, education, job, and medicine
How can they be part of the national security?
Author: Deepak Sarkar,