Requim For Un

United Nations, United Nations What an oxymoron! What an oxymoron!! The platitude goes- ‘United we stand’ In the UN, How erect we stand! How erect we stand!! We are *****erectus Aren’t we? This genocide-friendly unity of nations With extra-care tending The weeded garden of poison-trees. When Hutus and Tutsies blood-bathe The UN closely observes the situation, When Israel unchilds, unhusbands and unfathers The Palestinians, the UN Appeals to both the parties to exercise restraint. When the Theravada fanatics exterminate the Rohingyas And the West-engineered Arab Spring Tears the Middle East asunder, The UN condemns and condemns and condemns! O UN what a paradox you enflesh, Bringing to the forefront The anti-thesis - ‘United we stand, divided we fall’ To what insurmountable height you have taken The human(un)kind, we have seen Now anti-thetically we would like to fall As ‘fair is foul, foul is fair’. In your acronymic form When in lower case How prophetically you become An ominous prefix! UN, UN you are non-existent An ethereal entity, a papier mache; Ailan’s death has finally declared You biologically dead. Let this cenotaph be Placed on top of UN HQ: Here once architecturally stood The divided conglomeration of Nations – the UN, A metonymic entity Proudly pronouncing human unyokability. RIP, dear UN.