24 Oct 2012

Othering heights

Why make much of burning paper-and-wood RavaNas
When you can’t burn out the corrupt, the scamsters?
Why vilify the ‘asuras’ when those you call your own
Stab you on your back day in and day out?
Why other me and my much-maligned ilk
When skeleton after skeleton falls out of your cupboards
On senseless, sombre, sensation-crowded prime-time?