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Had been withdrawn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
