To understand the context please read the post number 116 dated November 24, 2025.

5.

watching now our iconoclastic expression

hordes of blood-sucking vultures

create an escapist fantasy

where poverty and protests are dirty words

the hounds have robbed us 

of every inch of our fertile land

made every house in my village

to reek with the smell of death

they know how to amass wealth 

while teaching us how to sink 

into abysmal poverty

how long can I fill up 

my belly with water 

when I am hungry

how long I can watch

funeral fire of dissatisfaction and

a silent procession 

of suppressed wailings

with the burden of the memory 

of my family you killed

for their sin of desire 

to live like human beings

1 speak about

the disappointed hopes 

after independence

how long should I live like dogs

it's now time for you 

to remember

all four-footed animals

need not be a dog

(From my poetry collection, “Always in Transit”)