Godless gangs

(From my poetry Collection 'Signatures')

There are so many confessions

There are so many confessions

remain un-confessed within us ,

you might understand

better if you were born in India

Number one is: lack of proper priests to confess with.

Number two is: we have strong faith in eradication

whether it is mosquitoes

or castes and its bigotries;

Number three: we are filled with wisdom

we know neither mosquitoes

nor caste will be eradicated for ever

by any statutory or complementary provisions

or by confessions

We breed mosquitoes everywhere

as politicians breed castes anywhere

since we need hospitals

we need mosquitoes

as we need governance

we need politicians breeding castes.

And it is our prime duty to profess

that mosquitoes and castes should be eradicated

Say, wouldn’t it look uncultured otherwise?

Sometimes the un-confessed confessions

make us sick; we compensate it

by performing  few murders and few bombings

and later some pujas and little bargains with gods.

Or else the whole godless gangs

would jeer at us

Vaiyavan