(often,
when faced with hate-groups from our own religion, a weird logic rises: If
'they' can brutalise humanity... why can't 'we' be permitted the 'right to
hate' too? This poem is a tribute to the vast majority of persons who
consistently choose to align every response to the core values of humanism and
tolerance...)
MY
RIGHT TO HATE!
If they can have their
rogues, why can’t I have my own thugs too?
If they can nurture hate,
why censure me, when the same I do?
It is my right to hate
and fear... all those who are not like me...
And to repress and
suppress all those who presume to be free!
If they can fetter their
women and treat them as lesser beings...
Why the shock and the
mock when I treat mine as personal things?
How dare these girls
walk upright... they can’t script their fate
The open celebration of
love is an affront to my right to hate!
My very culture is at
stake... the leash cannot be set free
The reasoning of
humanism can never deter my tribe or me...
My right to hate is
truly supreme and sans any challenge
It is fuelled by age old
wrongs that deserve resolute revenge!
Our enemy are those who flee
our morality enclosure
Who dream of a society
of free and open disclosure...
We must watch out for
them... they on the other side
We must hate them and
fear them and hit them and hide!
Our rights are under
severe threat from all those humanist nuts...
Their sweet saccharine
smiles make me want to empty my guts!
And worse are the
religious ones who read the same things that I do...
Yet they believe in love
and compassion for those other people too?
Those who protest our mission
are the ones who walk the wrong way...
Their lives are immoral
and evil, where sisters are permitted to stray!
What a silly thing to
believe that we all are one and the same...
And that my lofty hate
campaign is illogical and legally lame?
Our right to be
regressive cannot be ever suppressed
The ideology of hate
needs newer followers impressed...
So let’s spread the
canard of settings things right...
The ones like us, on the
other side, will help our fight!
Merchants of hate, in
every corner, need a common plan
One which talks of
values and violence with the same élan!
We must get together to
fight ... a fight for true democracy
Where the right to hate
must be one of equal opportunity!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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