We want water
We want water
We want land
We want oxygen
We want food
We want peace
We want justice, Father!
(All the children of the world)
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Soibam got 40 pellets
In his head.
And Insha Mushtaq got pitch darkness.
Father! Father!
We want light,
Father! Father!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Father…
Hush!
We have set up a school for pellet blinds in Kashmir.
About the poem: A poem in protest against using pellet guns on the protestors in Manipur.
Moumita Alam is a poet from West Bengal. Her poetry collection, The Musings of the Dark was published in 2020. The book has about a hundred poems written in protest against the humanitarian crisis from the abrogation of article 370, the Delhi riots, and the Shaheen Bagh movement to the unbearable sufferings of the migrant labourers due to the unplanned COVID – induced lockdown.
