Blood Has Its Colours Poem by AtreyaSarma Uppaluri

Blood Has Its Colours

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When I make a provocative statement
My backers cover it up:
We haven't seen it yet (OR)
Don't read it out of context

When you make a similar utterance
My comrades threaten:
Either you apologise
Or we'll hang you

When I wreak terror
And some one questions it
My buddies reason out:
Go to the root and redress it!

When you act in offence
My men demand:
Ban them, punish them!

When my country attacks yours
My compatriots defend it:
It's in pure defence
It's for universal peace!

When your country attacks mine
My partisans castigate you:
It's an outright invasion
It's naked imperialism!

When my countrymen are killed
My allies appeal to human sympathy
and tender sentiments.

When your nationals are killed
My people breathe fire and brimstone
Treating the killed like dirt and a dog.

Human blood isn't the same
It has its own clime and colour! ?

When I proclaim:
My faith is the greatest
My co-believers thump:
It's universal too!

When you praise
The virtues of your faith
My fellows quip:
It's only in theory made up
You never follow it!

With fanfare
We flaunt the 'global village'
But what do we see?
Localisation of the globe
And not globalisation of the local.

Isn't it high time, friends of the world,
We shed our Janus-faced approach
And tried to weld ourselves
Into a harmonious humanity?

Om shanthi shantih shantih! ! !
[May peace prevail everywhere! ! ! ]

[Jan 18,2009: : Hyderabad - 500 056]

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mehta Hasmukh Amathalal 10 October 2009

When your country attacks mine My partisans castigate you: It's an outright invasion It's naked imperialism......yes blood has different colour..mine is pure red and others having impure and black one.. different mentality with different standard.. that is how we live in with dubious distinction.....lovley write with provocative message and meaningful conveyance......10 read mine.. why i prefere double standard....territorial integrity....pora pora pora

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an excellent write that was'''please read my poem 'hold'

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Hyderabad, AP, India
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