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Dalit Poems
KITES Kites beautiful and colourful In all designs shapes colours Just because are flying high In strong breeze there in sky Raising just floating dancing Rolling looping also diving Can't afford ever challenging Kites flying high in the sky Or mock at the men below Just because they don't fly! For they do fly only because Specilists have made them Knowledgable properly fix These to smoothly fly high Skilled individuals fly them And the threads or twines Hold them firmly in the sky Even while floating dancing Raising rolling flying diving Right with the flier in ground When they get off or cut out Because of the poor quality Thread twine broaken clean Some may be torn by wind Cut by other specilist's kites Fliers run out of the thread All their dance and life end Go out off the fliers control Go down quick with wind Defenitely fast to the ground Like this many of us around Now in offices of advantage And big positions of power Can only laugh and dance Arrogantly show off or shout Untill they are in the offices And in the services of power Out from their chairs office They go down and fade off Like the supportless cut kite Such arrogant and reckles Officials men and women Quickly go down to vanish Worse than any of the kites Faster than one cut suddenly Which at least float down Steadily gradually in wind Too fast to even see them Fade out gradually to vanish From worlds' whole vision! - A Dalit Poet Previous Poem Next Poem |