Isn't All Well in This Land?

Isn’t all well in our land?

It has been declared

from the highest pulpit.

All is well with the people

They live happy and contented life

Why don’t you believe?

So many others believe it,

You too must believe it!

These my faithful are so patriotic

They are clapping at my surgical strikes

They are thrilled, I’ve given them Balakot

They are exhilarated

I have landed a good slap at the neighbor’s cheek

These patriots love it

Why don’t you yell all is well?

Are you not a patriot?

The patriots don’t need jobs

I have given them the job of singing

Praises to me and maligning my opponent

Day in day out with all their energy

They sing hymns to me and genuflect

They are not hungry for food

I have fed them with something much better

A plate of food cooked in our kitchen

A pseudo religious dish, they love to lap !

Farmers ? Why speak of them?

I’ve given them schemes galore!

So numerous I can’t even keep track of all

My enemies ask ---

Why are so many of them committing suicide?

Surely not my fault!

How dare you lay the blame at my door?

You are tarnishing the image of the country?

And spoiling my name.

You are an "Urban Naxal" or what?!

Why this hue and cry about Kashmir?

Why shout when I arrest

those trouble making politicians?

Why should they be allowed to have their own flag?

Their own prime minister?

Never! One nation, one flag!

I am the only prime minister!

I want to embrace them

370 keeps them far from me

Now, the heaven is ours with its fairies!

And my devotees can have them!

Isn’t all well in our beloved motherland?

Xavier Bage

Sat, Sept 28, 2019