Wednesday, September 2, 2015

FEAR PSYCHOSIS


POEM

Upon the assumption of power
by an overbearing ruler
barring a few
an inexplicable fear reflects in the eyes
of each citizen.
He remains panic and paranoid each moment
and takes a back foot  
be he a writer, artist
or intellectual.
They can be poets,
novelists, painters or essayists
and for that matter
who pen or sculpt or paint
conveying the message of freedom,
the thirst for freedom.
Those who exhorted us the citizens
to be the torch-bearers of freedom
suddenly withdraw into their shells,
fear gripping them tightly.
The dignity and
greatness of democracy
are put on the back burner
and that
immemorable dictum -
Of the People, For the
People, By the People
the quintessence of   Democracy
is being sucked………….

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