Time to Defect (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

It’s time to defect, my friend –

from the side of passport to the side of heartport,
from the side of prison to the side of reason,
from the side of nationality to the side of sanity,
from the side of myopia to the side of motion,

from the side of crutches to the side of conscience,
from the side of coffins to the side of character,
from the side of bombs to the side of backbone,
from the side of barbwire to the side of brainwire,

from the side of flag to the side of fervor,
from the side of parasites to the side of paragons,
from the side of pacemakers to the side of peacemakers,
from the side of ideology to the side of illumination.

It’s time to defect, my friend –
from the side of caves to the side of kind,
from the side of tribe to the side of life.