Assemblage of Voices

by Shernaz Wadia

I join an assembly of voices…

the cooing of doves

their gentle pleas for peace

detonated by the tumult of wars

the supplications of the meek

shot down in the summits

of the mighty and powerful

the voice of the exiled indigenous

their lands and cultures

usurped by thieving marauders

the anguished cries of those

in the imminent throes

of global warming

petitions that give tongue

to the mute and hapless

the endangered and vanishing

I join them all…

small voices ostensibly lost

as they pitch against

the jangling ruckus

of murky assurances

and fraudulent promises

of corporate-driven greed

and grime-caked politics

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Comments on this Poem

Indeed voice of the meek is silenced by the haughty corporate and political ones in nexus!

T A Ramesh
07-Mar-2021 21:15 PM