parallel lines

on the invisible plot of scramble for markets
the seemingly parallel lines of democracy
and religious fundamentalism, merged,
conveniently, with high decibels
of the urgency of a ‘safe nation’…

i remember, i built castles on the sand
and watched merrily as the waves
leveled it, again & again

but you hammered the bloodiest of nails
of nationhood into us,
cemented with lies, lies & lies
that even the strongest of waves of reason
got shattered, along with our dreams
of having a respected identity

division, i learned with numbers
in my age of innocence
but yours sharpened & perfected by the Court
so that you could demolish minarets, then
divide ‘the structure into equal parts’
you could aramse trisul the foetus of a pregnant
woman, just because she was a muslim
could burn alive a missionary
as he seemed to have threatened your territory;
and call for a national debate on conversion…
annihilate the other, as your faith reasons it
and sanctifies it as dharma …

what else i can expect from such dharma
that forced him to take the weapon against
his own brothers & sisters,
least bothering the consequences

and what a shame, you people still pawns
to the abominable war waged by the state
against its own people….

Parallel lines are no more parallel…….