A toZ, AZAD
A to Z, AZAD
(For Humayun Azad)
Ratan Kumar Saha Roy
To live and let live
is a philosophical word today
which minced with butcher’s knives
something is dying in us and
we watch in bewilderment
We thought the world
or at least our corner of it
could be made
it not better
at least less bad.
Some simple lessons of civilization:
Ballot-Box democracy is meaningless
without monocracy.
To say there is no world
But what we make with words
And what we call truth
is only a construct.
To be Azad, to be free
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