Two Drops of Blood (Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets

Pick a drop of blood from your finger,
pick a drop from another,
smudge it all on the palm of your hand –
now tell me, which is which –
which is heretic, which is believer –

which is the Christian blood,
which is the Muslim –
which is the faithful blood,
which is forbidden!

You always obsess over skin and bones,
but care the least for the life within –
wake up to life outside dead dogma, and you
can’t tell one life from another, it’s all one.