Random Thoughts Of The Silent Majority

by Venkatesh Emani

My silence is deaf and dumb

And it limps along

Speaking softly, protesting peacefully

Mindful of not disturbing

The headmaster's son

The dog lover

And the old man of the hills

With the walrus teeth

And the bald pate.

My silence is now a tenement

Amid the barbed wires of placards

And clenched fists

Speaking for my rights.

I am the Barbarian

At my own Gates.

My silence is

Choked by the Graffiti

On crumbled walls

And ruined temples of my tolerance.

My silence is

Palmyra and Bamiyan

And the echoing footsteps of Ages

Disappearing from

Memories and Monuments

My silence is

The fascism of the mute earth

Cracking up, ribbons of dry riverbeds

Strangling the mountains

Over muffled throats of dawns.

Nasty and Brutish

Are the short and simple Annals

Of my silence

My silence is the Suicide-Bomber

Of my tolerance, waiting

To explode....

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