Poem: The Inevitable Conversation

Some conversations are inevitable. However we see it we always go back to history. Think about the idea and not the person. That is the inevitable conversation.

Poem: The Inevitable Conversation

Justice vs Law

The law is blind,
and it can never be read
Probably by Braille…
it is always special that way

Constitution is rewritten
By a herd that can be two-thirds
A country could be dismembered
When a Parliament has numbers

Or —
If the Supreme Court has it
Even the judges’ seats are split
There is an aisle to walk

The words of the majority
When spoken is final
So somebody waves the constitution
Ask them after ‘What amendment’

Like history, this venerable document
Written by powers-that-be
For it is easy to prosecute
The vulnerable few through law
Than to persecute

Justice and law are miles apart
And never been the same

The chorus of the herd
Drown the voice of the few
For the right to dissent
And the right to protest
Without fear of backlash
And being called ‘anti-national’

If herds are only heard
What difference does it make
To call yourselves a democracy

Leaning on history
But history is always perspectives
We will never exorcise
The ghosts of our past

A line must be drawn
Understand it must be hard
For we walk on the dust
That our ancestors have become

If we have to fight for their rights
Going back to the past
However dark it might have been
Why don’t we start with dinosaurs

Else —
Let us start the inevitable conversation to
Respect the lives of today
For a better tomorrow.

~Ashok Subramanian © 2024