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Akshita Goyal

Toothless - a rant on society

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Poetry

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If the society was bought to life,
With its voice being the ammalgation of all our voices,
With its hand creating things that we all collectively make,
And destroying things that we all collectively destroy,
If it breathe in, what we all consume,
And made judgment on all that we assume,
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What would the society in its human form would say,
Would it sound any different than how it sounds today,
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And since , On a cast of profits and losses
all the human bonds are molden,
Surely the blood of this society human, would be golden
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May be the plethora of rules and laws and orders we made to protect this very society,
Would become the gums of the society's mouth,
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But since none of our laws, rules, orders ever solidify into anything,
As like mere words, these rules, we treat,
All water no cement ,
Thrown here, thrown there,
Nothing material ,
Nothing concrete
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So on paper, all those rules,
That Look so elegant
look so neat
if our society did humanized ,
It would have,
well formed gums,
Well formed mouth,
but no teeth
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So our society wont have a voice ,
It will be mute,
Because we always have two equally loud,
Equally proud,
Powerful but mutually cancelling voices,
On all disputes
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Though Maybe it might, just might,
still have a inner voice ,
And to find it,
Sometimes, deep inside,
It would reach,
But no one would hear,
As nothings clear,
As With no teeth,
Our society would not speak,
It will only shriek ,
It will only screech.


(Poem inspired from "The Toothless Times", a Sarban Chowdhury Solo Exhibition)

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