When pen
Becomes gun
Ideas flow like bullets
The enemy
Picks up gun
Unable to withstand the ‘ fire’ of ideas
And sprays bullets
To eliminate ideas
Still,
Question remains
As it did for ages and ages
What are we going to fight over to-day?
What is your grudge?’
The fight
Never ends
‘ To- day, the deliberate increase in the chances of death,
The conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder;
To- day the expending of powers
On the flat ephemeral pamphlet and the boring meeting …’ (2)
Sheshu Babu is a writer from anywhere and everywhere
Notes
‘ What are we going to fight over today?’ taken from ‘ The fearless- activist Gauri Lankesh #Obituary …http: //www. bbc.com/ news/ world-asia-india-41172115 (posted kracktivist.org September 7, 2017)
2 . Lines from ‘ Spain ” by W H Auden