HYPOCRISY: editor's choice

HYPOCRISY


We defend the human rights,
But let none challenge our rights.
Our wishes are but our rights,
Let others forget their rights.

Though for us, our policy
Is to have democracy,
Why care if elsewhere it fails
And autocracy prevails?

We defend environment,
As a holy sacrament.
But, to be guzzler of oil,
Is our right, let none it spoil.

We defend the equal rights,
Of Hispanics, blacks and whites.
But only the former two
Are to be jailed, it is true.

We must kill and must have fun.
Why ban porn and why ban gun?
No, we need not wield the axe
On these rich sources of tax.

We are the world’s nation great.
That is why we face much hate.
What if we drop a few bombs
And convert dwellings to tombs?

People of the world, beware:
Get out of your master’s glare.
Lord, Master, we are for you;
Forget, and you will this rue.


* The proportion of adult US population in jails, including those condemned to death, is much higher in case of blacks and Hispanics.
* Written in aabb, 7-7-7-7 format.
• Showcased in Poetry Newsletter dated 15 July 2010
* Originally written as item 705759, replaced on18 March 2005 by entry 335503 in the book WAR POETRY "WAR POETRY--award winner" . Posted as the present item on 25 May 2007.


M C Gupta
6 June 2003