Phones Are For Talking, Not For Tapping Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

Phones, all these years,
We were thinking,
Are for talking
And now we understand
That phones
Are for tapping only
People talk their phones
And simultaneously
People tap others' phones
We tap the phones of
Our political rivals
Whether within or
Without the party, but
We do not tap those of
National rivals
So that many mishaps
Would have been averted
But, yes
After a blast
After dozens of people die and
After hundreds of them hospitalized
We turn alert and
We are able to trace back
And to find the
Crucial links of the
People
Who were behind the calamity
Our political heros should stop
At barging at each other
And should stand united
In insisting on
Tapping of those phone
Which transmit plans of attacks
Well in advance
So that the planners themselves
Get caught and
Do not wait for
Damages to occur
National security is
Vital and more important
Than the
Political popularity
Of our politicians
Tap those phone
Before it is late