The Great Mongols

 Descendants of Genghis Khan

come riding on their thoroughbred horses;

Their excellent horse archers,

aiming, shooting at the targets.
They come like a thunderstorm

vanish as if a tornado;

They leave behind nothing but the dead

and stinking burnt debris of once magnificent cities.

Catastrophic, devastating, these warriors

come riding from the heart of Mongolia;

Hungry for killing, thirsty for blood

here come the Great Mongols.

Africa dying

In the fierce heat of Africa
a child sits
malnourished, dying slowly of hunger.
He is starving;
yet no body comes to help...
he is thirsty;
the fierce heat of Africa.
In the background a vulture sits,
watching,waiting
for the child to die.
It all happens...

In the fierce heat of Africa. 

Che

A sketch of Che Guevara drawn by me.

Stagnation

It’s a silent world,

with no enthusiasm at all.

It’s a world with no hunger

for any departures in the unknown.

Such a world it is,

which is decaying inside

but despite this hollow in the center

it is still extravagant outside.

A stagnant world, it stands

with no exploration, no change

no new things invented,

no discovery ever takes place.

In such a world where nothing happens

and everything is at standstill,

there is no progress made,

no new arts and sciences come.

Such a world is suffocating, I guess,S

with its windows closed it is.

It needs to open up its windows

so that fresh air can come,

bringing with itself new hunger, new enthusiasm. 

Exploitation

A little boy, not more than thirteen,

carries a plastic sack on his back,

along with him are his siblings and mother.

Picking up urban garbage, they are.

With sticks in hands to pick up waste,

barefoot and barely clothed,

this team of garbage cleaners,

searches for its evening supper.

With empty stomachs, starving for food,

they lift the waste and put it in their sacks,

they try hard for a meal,

but most times their efforts go in vain.

Hegemony

Two peoples live, in respective worlds of their own,

with their individual identities.

These two peoples, unknown to each other,

finally make a rendezvous.  

These two peoples are different from each other,

thus they behave like strangers.

They find each other idiotic and barbaric

and are unable to acknowledge each other’s customs.

They have conceited views,

and conceitedness often leads to fights.

These two peoples fight constantly

they quarrel for no reason.

Eventually, one party becomes more superior

and destroys the other group.

And hence this party brings home so-called glory

and thus establishes hegemony. 

The Rabbit, the dog and the human

There sits a rabbit in the garden.

Its snow-white fur contrasts with

The green fresh grass.

Suddenly a dog comes into the scene.

It pounces on the rabbit.

The rabbit somehow manages to escape.

The dog chases the rabbit further on.

A human sees the dog

How can he tolerate such cruelty?

So, he picks up some pebbles.

And then he throws them at the dog.

The dog runs away,

But the human continues to pursue.

He is enjoying the exercise.

The dog accepts his defeat

But the human, who is still enjoying,

Continues to shoot more and more stones.

And in this way the savior of one

Becomes the oppressor of others.