Unexpected

Tear-gas gunned.
Water-canons-shot;
Beaten...
Thrashed...
I, the unemployed
Stood before that police
One among them
Who had not got the payment himself
At least for a year
Just like me
Happened to lift his police-pole
To hit me
And when he found him facing
His own unpaid brother
Only tears could well up
In both


27 December 2021
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Gentile Avatar
December 29, 2021 at 5:14 AM
I can't pretend to fully understand and yet the commonality of such a reunion in any circumstance is very powerful as is your poem Christuraj!!
Alex Avatar
December 29, 2021 at 6:27 AM
Thank you very much.
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