Old Woman...

...behind her 
draped in pearly white
sagging bosom

there beats

something
even God
leaves his
Kingdom for...

Racial Colors

they came at the door rushing

in tens

groped

held

tied me

tight

poured cold colors

yellow

violet

green

pink

sprinkled murky water

bottled from common tap

they

cheered

laughed and yelled

united colors of India

come evening

they gathered all

except me

for a meaty meal

i asked

why am i not on the list

you are an outsider of other caste here

in came the answer

i said

you said

united colors of India

this noon

aha

that was just for fun

and

you were a point of that

remember

in spite of colors

we still are divided

you jerk

they yelled in chorus

and i died 

a racial death

©AniruddhaSastikar2014.

O Racism...

A child smiles –
looking at a friend’s face,
friend returns a bigger one.

Both eager to come close and play,
step toward one another;
just then,
in comes a shrill voice –
“Don’t play with that child?”
“Why?” asks the second one, sadly.
“That child is not our class and does not even speak our language, that’s why.”

With a gloom on faces and woe in hearts –
children return home, sob,
and wait for 'The Sun' of racism to set,
once for all.