Politics and Poetry

Bide your time here and have the exit plans prepared.

Destined to doom, for this nation is for sure

Policy paralysis is at times, at others, its soulless core bared

This rot at the base has no known cure.

Play your cards right, and choose to avoid a fight

expend energy judiciously, avoid puritanical flights

With critical mass reached, the elephant is dragging its feet

It’s end inevitable, the wounds are beginning to bleed

Economic pundits galore will paint a picture clean

asking you to feel good, for the GDP numbers they glean

But the human resource indicators tell another tale

as every single man's credibility here is up for sale

The govt servants afloat in corruption neck deep

every civil servant, has cash stashed in heaps

Black money not the only thing that's black here

the goons occupy the bureaucracy,  their currency is fear

The president an institutional puppet, the Prime minister too

With flailing hands they lead the nation to its doom

Ministers caught with their in hands in the till

The policing gone corrupt, there’s none a righteous kill

Once enlightened people, now descend to the dark ages

Every loud voice asks that the women be kept in cages

Sanity is in short supply for education has been rationed

Thanks to the education scams the ruling class has fashioned

The seeds of ignorance have been sowed so well

Reaping benefit are the politicians, with ‘education’ they sell

Like swarming bees, we have a generation of ignoramus

rioting, raping and remonstrating, proving their ‘machismo’ thus

But if you choose to stay, do make a difference with your vote

speak in NDA’s favour, Narendra Modi should be your rote

should you not heed the advice, do choose your price

an alignment to all vices and thus a cut to the ‘democratic’ size