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Dalit Poems
DALIT UNITY For We Dalits all, the need of the hour Is Unity Unity Unity, and total Unity Yes Unity Harmony and total harmony To bring and bind us together as Dalits Unified strong united and purposeful To resist fight and defeat our enemies Exploiters oppressors subvertors cheats Parasites and frauds living on our blood! But We are divided and badly divided Fractured into millions of useless bits Fragments pieces and dusts of no value Without Unity Solidarity and Strength To be esily crushed trampled by others Wasteful nameless meaningless masses Who can be forgotten or dispenesd Neglected brushed aside very easily! Cheap Labour Lives Slavish People Large masses divided and divided On castes and sub-castes, job rivalries On party ideologies, anti-left debates On States squabbles, villages, areas On linguistic basis and hindi factor On meaningless semantic problems On petty petty very small non-issues! Divided always on these non-issues Fighting for those petty small reasons Which all at no time and in history Were never for us or in our interest Ever could be of any use for any of us Never going to pay us any dividends Help any manner or move us anyway Get any reward or prove of benefit! Many differ also from one another On personal interests foolish faiths Realising bit not for even a moment Never here can We gain individually Reach or achieve anything in our lives Position placement success or gains However smart shrewd successful Capable We think personally We are! Our Leaders all nominated false ones Favour seekers worming their way up Wreckers of existing false leaders Or hopeful honest ones in the making Not genuinely homegrown amidst us Or fully rooted amongst our people Hold only personal private interests Build stupid family dynastic dreams! These selfish leaders disunited they are Keep us already divided further fighting Endlessly amongst ourselves for ever For no reason no end and no purpose To serve their interests party agenda Own political benefits and benefits Without anyway helping us individually Or our own poor Dalit Communities! The useless leaders now cheating us Make use of us all to gain as a whole From the still exploiting brahminic Parasitic caste hindus and supporters Let us be aware and also be beware Of our enemies from within ourselves Our own enemies have always been Dangerous, and more dangerous! Sure some of these leaders definitely Are more divisive and dangerous But some some now are destructive Very very dangerous and poisonous Specially danger has become specific On emergance of a few individuals Great rabble rousing tigers in public But weak selfish themselves within! One need not name them to tell you Everyone know them pretty well now Only often We are not honest to speak We are dishonest divided petty small Like all our Leaders don't speak out The truth to suffer, suffer our People Not help the Community to Liberate Atleast future generations to come! - a Dalit Poets Previous Poem Next Poem |