When Reality Bites Poem by Soubhagyabanta Maharana

When Reality Bites

Soubhagyabanta Maharana

When reality bites
Tangled with tension and mal administration
I stumble down at once
On the half way of my journey
Surrendering my primordial ego
Being suffocated by unjust ethics.

When freedom knocks at door
Should I reveal my shackles of slavery
Which have engulfed me till today
Amid murky darkness of ignorance
To mock at the icy sun?

Our democracy has become a mockery
To frown upon Ahimsa of Gandhi
When his three loving monkeys
Shed tears with heavy heart
Seeing degradation of man and society.

Surrounded by chaos of ism
My primal empathy searching for
A flicker of light
Amidst the encircling gloom of darkness
Bewails over inability from time to time.

The dark destiny of democracy
Has swindled and betrayed us
Dragging us to the nadir of morality
To worship the greedy god of scam and corruption
With penchant of perverted emotion.

*******