My Countrymen Poem by Ananta Madhavan
My Countrymen
When Immanuel Kant said,
“Human beings are ends”,
He included you and me.
Strange he should have had
Such prescience.
When Latin poet Terence said,
“Nothing human is alien to me”,
Was he speaking for himself?
He could not have foreseen
The modern airport lines and customs.
More than a billion Indian ends;
Let not all of them be alien to me.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: human nature
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Wrote it in youth, returning home to India from Europe.
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