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Indo-Pak Perfidy
India’s and Pakistan’s
gargantuan gargoylish armies
sadden, anger and madden
me;
Two monsterish machines
setting men, women, children
of the same biradari
as chilling enemies;
Two armies of two
illegitimate anglophile creations
conceived by politicians
in a hurry…
Politicians aided, prompted, goaded
by a viceroy and cartographer
for whom nations, religions,
cultures and human emotions
Were but a few ill-notioned
ill-intentioned lines on a
surveyor’s quadrant!
Baljit Malik