Folly

Layers of ignorance
Building glaciers of hate
Loathing of the unfamiliar
Dangers for the ‘other’

Hostility and revulsion
Recipes of civil disaster
A withering society
Breeding self-destruction

Blood always the answer
To any and every stray word

Defenders become attackers
No lions among lambs anymore

Faithless protectors of faith

Lucid minds driven to ghettos
Hyenas hunt the dead cities
Where logic lies in ruins

Where are the poets?
The writers? The painters?
Defenders of rights and voices?

All forgotten ideals

I stand mute and voiceless
Watching my kinsmen
Harvest a world of hate

The rainbow is red now
Fires bloom everywhere
In my selfish world of I's
With the world shrivelled up
And thrown into the corner bin