[From the Author of “Poems by Kolki –
Absolutely Humane”, a recipe for better world]
Violence
(Dedicated to conscious non-violent co-existing world – Deepak Sarkar, www.kolki.com)
Violence starts from slaughterhouse!
Moves into a shopping bag!
Comes to the dinner table
Served as delicious meal -
Delighting our face, watering our mouth!
With no sight of killing,
Cry for help, pain and suffering -
Glides into stomach for assimilation
Rests in small intestine for absorption!
Moves to every cell
Finds nest in the brain!
Gradually hardens sensitive mind
Teaches acceptance of abuse, violent crime!
Violence grows with larger appetite
Covered in fashion by peer pressures!
Eliminates childhood ideals and curiosity
Embraces alcohol, tobacco and pornography!
Justifies recreation for civilized being
Including boxing, hunting, racism or drive by
shooting!
Violence accompany us leaving school
Crowds’ corporate boardrooms!
Applies management science for profits
Downgrading employee salary, security, benefits!
Seeded in teachers, lawyers, storeowners!
Scientists, politicians, labourers or brokers!
Judges, doctors, lawmakers, or law keepers
Displays horrors as convenient measures!
Baptized with Scripture’s blessings
Becomes part of a ‘Commander in chief’!
Inherits most destructive power
To fight a war or make a war!
Briefed in secrecy while golfing
Making decision while hunting
Addressing nation at prime time viewing -
Starts a war, justify troops sending!
Submerged in wine and jovial mood
Relaxed with friends inside cozy war room
Precisely delivers missiles, shells, nuclear bombs!
Destroys countries, beings of all forms –
Unaware, unprepared, unarmed, unknown!
Author: Deepak Sarkar,