YEAR 2025 Poem: Change, by Pulkita Anand

Every day we survive to live to escape
to trail on the same path, to methodise
the code of narrative to stop believing in change
and believe in the status quo, believe in no change
start believing the tales, in the news,
that the cause of inflation lies in my body
that it is not temperature change rather it’s my body
that what’s learned can be unlearned at the same school
that ideas can be erased through provocative articles
that nothing is happening, nothing, nothing
that the truth is visible from the podium
till we learn what is said is right and wrong is what we think
right and wrong exist like peace and violence
like freedom and slavery, like power and politics
till we learn the new language,
till we worship the new incarnations like
Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Mao, Idi….

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