If the country’s security means that one must murder conscience as a precondition to live that every word other than ‘yes’ must seem indecent that the mind must bow in humiliating submission to a depraved time then the country’s security is a threat to us We had thought the country to be something sacred like one’s home, free from any sultriness, a place where man moves like the sound of falling rain in streets, where he sways like stalks of wheat in fields and grants meaning to the magnanimous vastness of the skies We had thought the country to be some experience like an embrace But if the country is a factory for exploitation of the soul if it is a laboratory to produce morons then the country is a threat to us If the peace of the country only means that we should break and crumble like stones rolling down mountains that the unashamed laughter of prices should for ever spit on the face of earnings that bathing in one’s own blood should be the only holy virtue earned then peace is a threat to us If the country’s security means that strikes must be crushed to dye the peace in deeper hues that the only martyrdom should be the one attained on borders that the only art should be which blossoms on the ruler’s windowpane that the only wisdom should be which waters the land from the authority’s well that the only labour should be which sweeps the floors of royal palaces then the country’s security is a threat to us - Pash (revolutionary Punjabi poet)
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:59:53 +0000
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