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?