True Democracy Xiii Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

True democracy is outside the parliament;
The animal farm, the place for stooges,
Traded horses, worth only a billion,
Illiterate lot, political quacks, their speeches,
On face a humor, in content trivia.
Neither sermon nor chatter of the clown-

Remove the barricades, let the people speak,
On a serious note, let the children play,
Speakes in ‘Hyde Park', and a circus instead:
The Prime Minister please go home,
Pity the nation, ‘the death in your eyes' enough
Dear speakers in ‘Azadi Square', keep the show.

Sadiqullah Khan
Peshawar
August 30,2014.