When The Nation Regresses (Sonnet 2210) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Letter to the rest of the world –
for the first time in over 200 years,
US is proudly regressing to its primitive origins,
now is the time to take stock of your strengths within –

your domestic brains, your domestic backbones,
and wield, empower and apply them most vehemently –
now is the time you fly higher than ever, without sam,
because big brother has turned into a drunken uncle.

And to those living within these shores of liberty,
who still have their senility intact, I say –
you might not have had the honor to fight nazis,
but now is the time you resist with your life.

It’s not a free country, it’s a free jungle,
where predators roam free abusing the marginalized.
If you don’t stand up now on the right side of life,
not human, not alive, you are undead – uncivilized.