Let Me Say Poem by Rafeeque C.K

(Pantisocracy = Egalitaranism)

Is the world free from the power's clutches? ?

Power, the ubiquitous!
Empires, Dynasties, Darbars, Governments
each exerts 'power'.
Patriarchy, Matriarchy, Master, Lord each
craves for ruling over the 'other'.
Is there any alternative? Yes, there's!
Once it was there, but people made fun of it,
they let it down.
I'm damn sure, still 'hope' is in
desperate need of us to be hoped.
It's none, but 'Pantisocracy'.
Get it rejuvenated, regain the vigour
of Coleridge who failed to render it eternal.
Let's have our hands put together,
to be in a world where there'r no 'Chauvinistic Pigs'!
No vainglorious masters, no beastly bragging politicians,
no hideous customes, no more pounces upon the innocent mortals.
Where there'r no encroachments, exploitations and blood sucking.

Hey, the mortal man!
Have a look at animals.
'They are so placid and self-contained', stand and look at them.*1*
'They do not sweat and whine about their conditions,
no one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
not one kneels to another' *2*

Oh, man! You are not born to lick the boots,
or to scavenge the stools which other defecate.
Sing with Brown: 'we'r tired of beatin' our head against the wall
and working for someone else.
We are people, we'r just like the birds and the bees.
W'd rather die on our feet, than be livin' on our knees, say it loud' *3*

Isn't there still hope for a world in which all are equal?


*1* & *2* : Walt Whittman,
*3*: Brown, the blues singer.