Monday, December 19, 2005

The black dog with white spots----

The black dog with white dotted spots
on its drooping face,
like figures on world map spread on its body,
Ceaselessly barks before embarking on a dustbin,
for mankind’s ambivalence
and atrocities and growing turbulence,
wagging its tail to clean the foodstuffs
and rice balls offered as sacred manes
for the ancestral dead ones,
thrown in front of the house,
chased by its master for its clutter,
the dog and the master have to go
the same place whence they come from,
I,as passerby pity the hurried one
not to call it animal for till now:
It befriended its heinous, sinister, master.
It settles in a corner, its animal nature cowed
to view another human animal passion
augmented on its way, in a silent mode.

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