People
whose placement in seats spells out s.e.r.v.i.c.e
not subjugation;
hose understanding of positions lies
in the country’s motto:
unity and faith, peace and progress,
where unity beats instigation of violence
and stir faith in her citizens,
resulting in the wholeness that brings progress.
People
who uproot the weed of greed when
saddled with the responsibility of multiplicity
and distribution of the nation’s wealth.
People
who carry on their lips, words of inclusion,
fairness and oneness, unplugging from the socket of
sneer, hate, division.
Can we be people?
People
whose bellies do not decide our future;
whose mouths are not stuffed with the
bread of looters to overlook oppression and thievery.
People
principled yet empathetic enough not to throw
the baby with the bathwater via the ‘cancel’ culture;
who see in the light of culture relativism
rather than ethnocentrism;
whose difference in caps
does not stop the sincerity of heart.
People
whose ears itch for development in place of gossip;
whose nose picks up the smell of growth
rather than sniffing idly, where there is nothing;
whose mouth refrains from backchats to utter value.
Can we be people?
People
who do not give primacy to ignorance
by despising climate precautions.
People
whose cause for a clean environment is not
the law’s consequences but health’s.
People
whose investment in businesses has the
well-being of consumers as its priority;
who refuse sub-human treatment by
rejecting the importation of sub-standard edibles.
Can we be people?
People
who do not place the cart before the horse by
setting eroticism above human value?
who choose to ride the lane of consent
and steer clear assumptions.
People
whose salient nature of empathy and restraint
guide the dance of our sexual flames;
People
whose captain of empathy and mutuality
call the shot amid sexual turbulence.
Can we be people of love, colour, and progress?
If yes, let’s begin.
If no, let’s imbibe.
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