Radical Elements Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Animals make packs, herds and hives;
Survival instincts demand it.
Men make clans, castes, tribes and kingdoms;
Survival instincts demand.

Religions were made to group them.
Mythology was framed to believe.
Subjective truths were imposed.
Faith is the cementing factor.

Nations were made to corner them.
Patriotism was in display.
War memorials replaced temples.
Safety is the cementing factor.

Secularism and nationalism
Are new ways to gather people.
Here all gods are accommodated
Or rejected with no God policy.

For the right, Nation is the God;
Sedition and blasphemy sound.
For the left, no nation, no god;
Sedition and blasphemy fail.
26.02.2016