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02/12/2019
HOW LONG WILL YOU HATE US


 

 

How long will you hate us
for sins that stain our common past?
How can we excise this cancer
that spreads unchecked within our being?

Advanced bitterness has no cure,
no panacea, no balm save one.
Prophets prescribe forgiveness,
saints swear by the power of love.
If only politicians garbed in khaki
had eyes instead of spears,
they might see what civilian hearts perceive.

Peace is not a state of no-war.
Pacifist animals kill for food,
combat occasionally for supremacy. 
Should we too on all-fours crawl,
revert to primitive bestiality?
Have all our prophets died in vain?
Have their sacrifices been wasted pain?
There is time yet for us to redeem
promises we made to history.

We argued whether Guru Nanak-ji
should buried or cremated be.
While we frayed, he left fresh flowers
to end our corrosive hostility.

8.11.19

 
02 December 2019
 
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