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A toZ, AZAD

A to Z, AZAD

(For Humayun Azad)

Ratan Kumar Saha Roy

To live and let live

is a philosophical word today

which minced with butcher’s knives

something is dying in us and

we watch in bewilderment

We thought the world

or at least our corner of it

could be made

it not better

at least less bad.

Some simple lessons of civilization:

Ballot-Box democracy is meaningless

without monocracy.

To say there is no world

But what we make with words

And what we call truth

is only a construct.

To be Azad, to be free

to walk, talk, write, sing

love, draw, dance

is the A to Z of life

the rest is Death

Death, death, death.

I’m not concerned here with poetry

The poetry is in the protest.

A to Z, AZAD

(For Humayun Azad)

Ratan Kumar Saha Roy

To live and let live

is a philosophical word today

which minced with butcher’s knives

something is dying in us and

we watch in bewilderment

We thought the world

or at least our corner of it

could be made

it not better

at least less bad.

Some simple lessons of civilization:

Ballot-Box democracy is meaningless

without monocracy.

To say there is no world

But what we make with words

And what we call truth

is only a construct.

To be Azad, to be free

to walk, talk, write, sing

love, draw, dance

is the A to Z of life

the rest is Death

Death, death, death.

I’m not concerned here with poetry

The poetry is in the protest.

A to Z, AZAD

(For Humayun Azad)

Ratan Kumar Saha Roy

To live and let live

is a philosophical word today

which minced with butcher’s knives

something is dying in us and

we watch in bewilderment

We thought the world

or at least our corner of it

could be made

it not better

at least less bad.

Some simple lessons of civilization:

Ballot-Box democracy is meaningless

without monocracy.

To say there is no world

But what we make with words

And what we call truth

is only a construct.

To be Azad, to be free

to walk, talk, write, sing

love, draw, dance

is the A to Z of life

the rest is Death

Death, death, death.

I’m not concerned here with poetry

The poetry is in the protest.

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