Rhymeless Reason

This was written right after Jayalalitha's death and the political drama that ensued in Tamilnadu, especially when the normally subservient O Panneerselvam suddenly turned rebel We called him subservient and we considered him dull Even as we credited him for taming the Jallikattu bull He didn’t do too bad weathering Vardah , the cyclone But has the resulting popularity left him all alone? His reticence was annoying and showed him as sissy Even as the state was gobbled up alive by the gang of Sasi The eternal stop gap man was considered too meek Until he developed a spine and decided to speak He might have been hiding his insults with tear and smile And that may have endeared him to the rank and file But spare a thought for state that is going through a slump Becoming a shameful spectacle to the world and being compared to Trump OPS might emerge the winner after throwing in his hat But he should remember that the winner of a rat race is still a rat The drama might get more interesti

(Wrote this based on the drama surrounding the arrest of His Holiness Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal, years ago ) He was accused of being apartner in crime Wonder , wh at people won't do for a few dime Some say that he was responsible for getting into the mess Wonder, if they were right about His Holiness Sometimes we listen to things that we don’t like to hear Wonder, if we respected a sinner or seer The truth remains somewhere in the once Holy Mutt Wonder, if the seer would ever come out of the rut The Pontiff may prove that the accusation is just lame Wonder, if his reputation will remain the same He might have had too many criminals in his circle Wonder, if that mistake caused him the tickle Everyone is equal b efore the law, , said the court Wonder, why then are all the corrupt politicians out Wondered if it was a mistake to arrest ’ Jayendra ‘ Wondered, if it held a prelude to ‘end Jaya era ‘

They are the leaders who claim to love democracy But sometimes their actions would put to shame, a crazy They believe that might is right And that bullying smaller nations is their birthright They considered Saddam an evil Yet they created Osama, to play the devil Sometimes they bite more than what they could chew And that’s what happened when the devil gave his due The attack on WTO was a sickening horror But it was a shame to market it for the war against terror They crossed the seas and attacked other cities In the name of ending terrorist atrocities Uncle Sam has nose so long, that he likes to poke Even as the world new that WMD was nothing but a joke Yet they occupied other man’s soil For reasons as real as minerals and oil The world was helpless as they split the mighty Soviet The fear of which had shut everyone quiet They destroyed a nation to avenge Pearl Harbour and built themselves by outsourcing jobs for cheap labour They have landed everywhere except the Sun And they always