Dissent Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Defend your rights and
be marked as a dissenter.
A stain it is not and strive
to stand your ground even
when you are stifled and smeared.

Ascent to heights of conviction
fuelled by the determination
to differ and dissent.
Descent not amid the threats
of making you fall in line.

Cowed by the crowd dont
ever count yourself out.
Dither not and differ for the
rights that demarcate your
being in strife and calm.

Tear apart the voices that
seek to storm your being with
shrill threats of making you sterile
by the abhorrent majoritarian
takes of righteous indignation.

Dissent and stand for the
convictions with inextiguishable
passion and relentless self belief
dither not in your dissent
and ascent to your rightful place.