Love, Hate and Politics!

Love indispensible…
Agony inseparable…

Life stumbling through
A quagmire

Quicksand time
Devouring the dream

A pull
A push

The demand rising
And falling

Economics!
Politics!

Love sinking the soul
Like a torpedoed ship

The submarine nowhere
To be found!

Nation gasps
Fights inflation

Love waltzes, naked
And then is sold for free
And dumped into labyrinth
Of emotion that is built of
Layers and layers of hate
Whipped up by frenzied
Zealots, who want to submerge
Religion with a ‘fake faith’
That serves severance from,
Bondage of
Humanity!

Love strangulated,
Bonhomie among Men
Thwarted,
Religion gasps
And cries to be
Freed from the
Hands of the usurpers!

And everything is
Political!
Love…
Religion…
Hate…

Never think of
The
Correctness
Though!

That’s politics!

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.