He is No God to Me
There he stands
Pointing his finger
At me and my country
They say he is our
lawgiver
But he is no Lycurgus
to me
Justice he said he
sought
Instead he got his
vengeance
They say he was a
messiah
He did away with
priest
Then why he butchered
my rights
At the alter of
equality
He may be your savior
But pearly gates were
closed for me
Yes the oppression is
wrong
Yes the
untouchability is wrong
But tell me this my
friend
How do I share this
guilt?
Like those he reviled
He made me less
by virtue of my birth
For deeds of past
My home was bereft of
future
Yet I don’t hate him
My questions are not
to detest
But to those who fall
at his idol.
He is no god to me.
Siddharth Sehgal
Siddharth Sehgal is a
writer, poet and editor in chief of Indian Periodical. http://indianperiodical.com
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