A Leader Without Backbone Poem by Madhabi Banerjee

Don't tell me a leader
Leadership is not my hereditary right
Don't tell me that I am a righteous man, rigid in truth!
You are all flatterers
who have created me as a leader.
TO whom I am an object of ridicule
An idol of snow without backbone
Standing before the sun of flatterers
To melt myself away in water drops
When look at my surroundings through a mirror,
I see it become bankrupt because of me!

Don't tell me a leader.
Otherwise,
The generation to come shall feel this day
As sharp to them as thorn.