Dalit Poems


UNTOUCHABLES!

Land based hard working labourers!
All poor dirty skinny bones have been,
Millions millions and millions of years -
Mining land for all their mineral wealth,
To create various good material riches!


For planting seeds shrubs and the trees
For cultivating good crops food fruits
Ploughing agricultural farms and fields
And digging the earth and the rich land
The Land - Oh Mother Earth Goddess!


Dark dirty poor skinny bones of land!
Just for digging and ploughing the land!
Blamed accused and abused for having
Defiled mother earth vertually raping her!
Have been condemned as Untouchables!


Generation after generations generations
Of great grand father grandfather father!
Son grandson great garnd son and son!
Great great great great great grand son!
And so on on and on and on endlessly!


And that is how rulers, vedic scholars,
Rich traders, and from amongst them
-All their learned wisemen and women
Great big philosophers all the teachers
Been fooling People for Millenniums!


- A Dalit Poet

Previous Poem
Next Poem

Send e-mail to dalits@ambedkar.org with questions or comments about this web site.
No Copyright © 2000 dalit e-forum Last modified: September 23, 2000