STARK
REALITY
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Manas
Bakshi (India)
Stranded behind a wall.
Curiosity grows to see and know
What's there beyond
......
Debris of past -- an eye opener
To the living death poignant at present,
Dead body of democracy
Wrapped in a white sheet :
Meeting , slogan, agitation and hunger strike
Fuming against a paralysed system
Culminate in a clash!
Protesters forced to vacate the spot
Before it comes under the surveillance
Of CCTV and some sniffer dogs --
Tonight at the banquet
Alcoholic jubilation will outstrip the privileged,
Nobody marks yesterday's bloodspots
Bright as sunrays today
On the white sheet
Wrapping up the dead.
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