CAN OUR PENS WRITE?
We
have large numbers! We have the skilled hands!
We
have creative minds! We have vibrant hearts!
We
have a broad vision! We have the big big fists!
With
our old living chisels and also the hammers!!
As
also now the pen and can also read and write!
Can
now our pens write? Can we help it record??
What
the chisels spoke all these long millenniums -
Softly
silently but always continuously and endlessly?
Much
more vibrantly boldly openly really vividly!
Clearly
unambiguously! Can we all now use them?
Can
we collectively write out Meaningful messages?
For
our own people to read think debate improve!
That
requires openly agitating our minds and hearts!
And
use them more and more, much more clearly,
Effectively
forcefully meaningfully and also honestly!
Can
we now also start thinking to writing the agenda
Our
actions and plans for our future and our children
What
we are going to do with the Govts and Nation!
How
we are going to deal with others who had been
Exploiting
marginalising and sidelining us everywhere!
- a dalit
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