Confused of this betrothal, <br />Since the wheel of asoka replaced the handcuff, <br />On the night, when the lions left, <br />Leaving the sheep to bleat, <br />Sixty six years gone, <br />The multitude of human, <br />Tripled, soon to surpass the Chinese, <br />The wealth neither dwindled nor created, <br />But protected by the selfish giants as guards, <br />We are still divided and occupied, <br />The checkered squares of a pyramid, <br />Where we can’t find any prosperity, <br />Only the once alive dead mummies, <br />Glory of the past caste hierarchy, <br />The hands pushed down the democracy, <br />Marx, Lenin and Stalin ideologies, <br />The state is the guardian angel, <br />To appear and appease the electoral, <br />For the votes to be counted again and again, <br />For the same groups replace each other, <br />Same wrongdoing repeated term after term, <br />We know nothing of the disgrace and shame, <br />Unless we think of us as one and equal, <br />Segregation and favoritism not favorable, <br />Wind of change is still not felt, <br />Though the marriage to democracy is misspelled, <br />The old ethnic and cultural perception of life, <br />Neither helps nor destroys us to be aloof, <br />We can speak the languages that machine can understand, <br />While the livelihood of our siblings at stake.<br /><br />veeraiyah subbulakshmi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-machine-understands-what-we-speak/
