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VISCERAL FIRES burn Gujarat
vivisect and be merry sings the politician
tap dancing on dead stinking bodies
what kind of madness is this
that makes bonfires of little children
torches pregnant women
turns neighbour against neighbour
and makes monsters out of ordinary faceless men
leading dull pitiless lives
MARX SAID religion was opium
it shadows senses hides inequities
but such crimes of hate
are not perpetrated by people
benumbed by the drug of religion
but risen to a frenzied hysteria
by mob reveling in the seething rage
of impotent power
a collective orgy of ritual
YOU KILL a man because he doesn’t share
your obscurantist ideas
your bloated belching beliefs
you destroy a child
because he was born into a religion
he had no role in seeking
and you don’t just surgically kill
you torture maim burn and then laugh
your sardonic devilish laughs
and go back to your one-room tenements or your fancy homes
watch third rate soap operas
on prime time television
spouting kitschy family virtues
rape your woman in bed
and pretend life goes on as usual
EVEN AN animal is not voyeuristic
you watch people burn to death
raise a toast to your petty lords
and your effete loins
you impotent you beast
you wretched son of the soil
you messiah of hate
you mindless miserable soul
you pawn in the hands of politician
you scum
you make me ashamed of being
i renounce the sordid religion you embody
RELIGION THE slayer of innocent kids
religion the one-way ticket to lunacy
i renounce you
(Courtsey : Hindustan Times)
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