Dalit Unity

For We Dalits all, the need of the hour

Is Unity Unity Unity, and total Unity

Yes Unity Harmony and total harmony

To bring and bind us together as Dalits

Unified strong united and purposeful

To resist fight and defeat our enemies

Exploiters oppressors subvertors cheats

Parasites and frauds living on our blood!

But We are divided and badly divided

Fractured into millions of useless bits

Fragments pieces and dusts of no value

Without Unity Solidarity and Strength

To be easily crushed trampled by others

Wasteful nameless meaningless masses

Who can be forgotten or dispensed

Neglected brushed aside very easily!

Cheap Labour Lives Slavish People

Large masses divided and divided

On castes and sub-castes, job rivalries

On party ideologies, anti-left debates

On States squabbles, villages, areas

On linguistic basis and hindi factor

On meaningless semantic problems

On petty petty very small non-issues!

Divided always on these non-issues

Fighting for those petty small reasons

Which all at no time and in history

Were never for us or in our interest

Ever could be of any use for any of us

Never going to pay us any dividends

Help any manner or move us anyway

Get any reward or prove of benefit!

Many differ also from one another

On personal interests foolish faiths

Realizing bit not for even a moment

Never here can We gain individually

Reach or achieve anything in our lives

Position placement success or gains

However smart shrewd successful

Capable We think personally We are!

Our Leaders all nominated false ones

Favour seekers worming their way up

Wreckers of existing false leaders

Or hopeful honest ones in the making

Not genuinely homegrown amidst us

Or fully rooted amongst our people

Hold only personal private interests

Build stupid family dynastic dreams!

These selfish leaders disunited they are

Keep us already divided further fighting

Endlessly amongst ourselves for ever

For no reason no end and no purpose

To serve their interests party agenda

Own political benefits and benefits

Without anyway helping us individually

Or our own poor Dalit Communities!

The useless leaders now cheating us

Make use of us all to gain as a whole

From the still exploiting brahminic

Parasitic caste hindus and supporters

Let us be aware and also be beware

Of our enemies from within ourselves

Our own enemies have always been

Dangerous, and more dangerous!

Sure some of these leaders definitely

Are more divisive and dangerous

But some some now are destructive

Very very dangerous and poisonous

Specially danger has become specific

On emergence of a few individuals

Great rabble rousing tigers in public

But weak selfish themselves within!

One need not name them to tell you

Everyone know them pretty well now

Only often We are not honest to speak

We are dishonest divided petty small

Like all our Leaders don't speak out

The truth to suffer, suffer our People

Not help the Community to Liberate

At least future generations to come!

a Dalit Poet

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