© Muhammad Haque 2007
The Muhammad Haque Political Poetry
London 0255 Hrs GMT
Friday 9 February 2007
Whose anniversary is it today?
Extracts:
“
How many names make it today?
In the front pages of the world?
In how many languages
Apart from the languages
Of the chosen ones!
English is of course THE chosen language
Hence these lines are being originated, scripted in it
And the others
Like the English language
That dominate
That predominate
How many names can they
Provide that appear
Prominently on the front-pages?
And those that do
Why do they do?
Do they evoke awe
Like the promise
The potential
The threat
Of awe they spread
Across the intra nets
Shared between the
Plotters of mass murder
Back in February 2002
As they scripted away
And planned to hold sway
Over the known networks
Of mass fear and hysteria
How many of the mass murderers
Are being given solemn
Citations in the avid
Columns of gravely worded
Patriotism
Statesmanship
That fill the deeper
Columns
In the even deeper
Organs of countable
World opinion!
Do they confess to the crimes
Of op Ed writers?
Writers who collude with
Crimes of mass murder
Writers who are complicit
In mass murder
So long as the crimes
Are committed
In lands
And to people
Branded
As the legitimate
Recipients of such
Evil?
Whose anniversary is being
Observed in the halls
Of over hyped academies
Across the territories
Presumed to belong
To the chosen people
Who assert the chosen status
By the fact of their ability
To commit mass violations against
Those they deem are armless
And those they know are
Objectively speaking harmless
And so they take advantage of the
Harmless and the armless
And they consign the innocents
To the worst suffering!
Are the anniversary laureates
Mindful of a thing they used to call justice?
Are the regimes endorsed laureates
Still claiming to possess a soul?
As they compose verses and rhymes
Obliterating justice in our times?
Whose palatial home
Will be the venue of what celebration
Of how many lies against civilisation
As defined by reference to the evocation
Of evil in place of respect, of adulation
Of capital crime in place of toleration
Of human rights?
Ooops!
Will that phrase last the year
Until the next anniversary
Or will they banish the phrase
And the concept
Of human rights
Before another year is out?
Then
Whose anniversary will they be
Celebrating after that?
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