What Law? What Rule?

They died fighting for their
LAND
Biting the dust

Bullets spread from all
DIRECTIONS
They fell like uprooted
Banana trees.

The usurpers paid for the
BULLETS
And usurped the land
They were born in
And the land they
TILLED

In death they protested
The lawlessness they
Suffered from in their
MOTHERLAND!

Pranab Ghosh is an award-winning Indian journalist and writer, who has worked for major news outlets of the country, including HT Media Ltd., Eenadu Digital, TNIE, Business India group etc.. His books of poems have been published by English and Canadian publishers. Read other articles by Pranab.