Satyajit Pradhan

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Satyajit
Pradhan

Satyajit likes to pretend that he is a poet occasionally, regardless of having the limited vocabulary of a third grader. He believes that music is a common language spoken internationally and insists that the simplicity of his poetry is intentional. He believes in peace, love, respect and truth.


  • I say there is no rationality
    Behind this social disparity
    That the taste of freedom and democracy
    Is reserved for you and not for me
     
    Sold to the highest bidder
    To the writer and not the reader
    Bought by the self-appointed leader
    Who imprisons the children’s feeder
     
    Hope is lost in perpetual darkness
    Disconnected from the world
    Blindfolded in sadness
    But you know the reason for this public madness
     
    Of technology we can only have a little taste
    Education at the highest level is going to waste
    Our future is diminishing before us in such haste
    And patriotism is classified and therefore misplaced
     
    Politicians ignoring our empty plates
    Driven by greed, dictating our fates
    To a hungry stomach no one relates
    And you wonder why our heart only hates?
     
    They tax us for every step we take
    For every time we sleep and every time we wake
    While every promise issued is certifiably fake
    And they ask us why we rebel when our souls are at stake
     
    Every breath we take is polluted
    All of our rights have been looted
    The situation is convoluted
    In perpetual darkness we are all suited
     
    Happy load-shedding everyone
    Someday the only light we’ll see is the sun
    And yet our struggles have only just begun
    Our leaders have their fingers on the trigger of the gun
     
    Don’t let them turn the light off of your soul
    Break free from the ignorance they imposed to control
    Don’t let this darkness make you surrender your goal
    And take back the once radiant country they stole