Human Beast Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

Because of darkness
We couldn't recognise each other
The only fire that was giving light
Was of hunger and black in colour
We rode on our own shadows
And whipped them with hunters

The heart was thus broken
Into thousand pieces
Each piece having a different face
With the look of an enemy
And so the war broke out
Without a proper cause
Just to prove oneself superior
to others

Then lines were drawn on land
And men are trained as soldiers
To fight with each other
To guard the lines not to be deleted
Then inside the circle
Men were divide into
Caste and creed and religion
And to oppress each other
Money and power and knowledge
Turned into killer weapons.

We not only killed our brothers
But also our mothers and fathers
Thus the earth lost its green
And the sky its blue
We declared ourselves as winner
But our hands remained empty
Forever