We are not quite aware that how much the consumer culture
has promoted greed in a manner that it has promoted in turn a new type of villainy in every one of us. We have become so cynical that we want to live in an idyllic present. We are fond of saying “Nobody can change this world.” A very close friend of mine wrote to me recently, “Principles and philosophies, ideologies and protests and struggles and sacrifices have already lost their meanings in this world. Why you old bloke try to pain my soul with your preaching of inner meaning of any work of art?" I was disappointed. Then for no conscious reason the vision of a python, an elephant and swarming maggots entered my mind. And I wrote the following.
SOULLESS MAGGOTS…
It’s not simple villainy,
death in dark shafts of greed
silk-screened sweet smiles.
Marauders loot your house in day light
leave you wounded.
Python eating elephant in the yard
complains of flatulence
you laugh
but a few vets wait for its droppings.
Houseflies are senseless
they ever hover over
your maggoty wounds
simple creation are maggots soulless
soon would they want a corpse.
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