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(on the death of a leopard which was killed by mob near Gandarpur, Bhubaneswar on 13 January, 2011)
A leopard killed,
How easy it sounds.
But the fact goes
The leopard died in a war.
A war with rods, poles, spears and stones
Was seen again
In the city of elites;
History repeating………
All fought like heroes
Except the leopard
Who died like a meek civilian
With hands off, legs up
Praying for mercy
In vain.
You abhor Maosists
Yet with double the wrath of
Hundreds of Maosists
You beat it to death
You killed it on its homeland.
Who was it ?
May be
It was a cop deployed to guard its land
Or a dark adivasi apprehending the white?
In the out skirts of the city
By a river bed
Under the open sky
It could not be arrested
But encountered and killed.
How much land you need?
The jungle is dying
The concrete jungle emerging
The jungles, however, invaded,
traumatized.
Men fought wars against man
Making heroes out of aggression.
Very often
elephants, bears, bees, monkeys
and now leopards
Trumpets blown
Beware the World War III coming
Invincible man versus dumb animals. |
