They made an icon <br />Of the iconoclast <br />Raised statues <br />For him <br />At every street corner <br />Remembered him <br />Faithfully on his birth <br />And death anniversaries <br />Vied with one another <br />To pay floral tributes <br />Found new virtues <br />In him every new year <br />Put him on higher and higher pedestals <br />Turned his words into the gospel truth <br />And went on the warpath <br />When anyone dared to question him<br /><br />Prabhakar Subramaniam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/idols-6/
