Breaking News, Break It Not Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

It’s the time for the breaking news and the news breaking,
Break the news, but break not all rules and regulations,
O, you the media men,
Reporters, correspondents and journalists!

Give us the breaking news, surprising or shocking, but break not to present it,
Tell us what it is the truth, speak it please,
Tell not a lie as often do you,
The professional and commercial people.

Show us the breaking news, but break it not all morality and ethics
As help you in
Putting the spy camera in the bathroom,
Place you the radar as to overhear whispers.

Love in the air, diplomacy on the wings
And you guessing about love
And talking to kites, vultures and hawks
As for your across the border reports.

Give us a break, show us the breaking news as a volley of thrusts,
But break it not
As to suit your selfish ends,
Priding over the words, the press and the media.

Everybody likes it to be in the camera flashlight, in the limelight,
In the media glare
And think you dining with the ministers and officers,
So sly are you.

Just for the breaking news, break not it all, the employees of media barons,
Break not the hands and legs of the news items,
Distort it not, twist it not
To serve your ends.

From the footpath journey you just like the politicians
To make a name and fame,
To make money
And raising the collar say you, who am I, what power do I hold in?