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Bulletproof conscience

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Have you ever heard?

 The men in the helm of affairs

Wept for the downtrodden

 

Either clean shaven or with beard

With long robe or dress of bears

Felt for the poverty ridden

 

Have you heard?

The men in power

Of the state and of the world

 

Ever this   incident has occurred

They stopped their land rover

To see the trembling of ‘slaughtered bird’

 

Have you ever looked?

From the abyss to the sky

The powerful state or powerful man

 

Showed any mercy to the booked

Tried to lower the casualty

Spared the week from the can

 

It is the charisma of the wealth

And abetted by the modern science

Usurpers want to extend

 

Their boundaries and their wealth

With the bullet proof conscience

That might not for awakening tend


— MASAQIB, Feb 28, 2010

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Mark

Mark

16 years 2 months ago

Akram

I'm not sure what makes this a sensitive matter of a poem. It does seem like a sort of rant to me. That is the experience I felt by way of the last stanza for sure. Done in a rather softer language so far as ranting shall go. Nice rhythm, title and beginning/endding Regards, Mark Resilient Flexibility