Orientalism II (Dialogue Ensues)
You have grown in certain techniques
I lagged because I did not consider them worthy
You scored
You branded
You added
Morality
And value judgment
On conduct
Ways and means of living
And robbed the continents
Dug treasures and sold them
In the name of spice trade
You brought certain knowledge
Of post Newtonian era
To which I too was a contributor
Then you handed over the banner
After much malice
To people of the new world
I am standing in front
Of nature and jungles and lands
Devoured by you
I discover my own eloquence
And language
And culture
And civilization
Much richer past
Much promising future
I am learning from you
How to make a nuclear bomb
3/11/2009
poem by Sadiqullah Khan
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