Tolerance
Tolerance!
From your mid-air balcony
While responding to greetings
Spread over on land below,
Drizzling on your wrist/
The waving star studded bracelets,
I don’t know why-
Reminded me
Those rough hands of juvenile kids
Picking their livelihood
Out of municipality’s dust-bins?
On wounded shoulders,
Those you stood upon to plan
Strategies of despicable scams
And so uncompromisingly
Marketed rainbow of dreams,
Resting on them
Flags of your ‘intolerance’
On prohibited roads
I don’t grasp how-
Appeared to me
To be fluttering rags,
Begging before public places?
Cushions of the facilities,
You enjoyed without having
To work in tea gardens
And in offices of shopkeepers,
In anticipation of being snatched
By the faceless folks
Coughed out the fear
Of unwarranted intolerance!
You owe them something or what?
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