Something dark

 I know you read me

and then wish you hadn't

because there is something in there

you just can't place your finger on

something that is nothing like and belied by my appearance

shaggy like a bear and silver-backed like a gorilla

something dark that swallows light

and make you want to be wild, get wet or get angry

Proud to be an anti-national poem

 Looking at the young, feminine faces of 'the enemies of the State'

Narwal, Devangana Kalita, Parul Khakar and Disha Ravi

Their names like a poem

(All Good Hindu Names, or are they not, my friends?)

I feel 'their' State is the devil's flaming brew/tea

and they the flies to wanton boys

who think they are Gods

who 'strip' off their wings

and leave them all in it to float, sink or drown.