My Struggle (Sonnet 1500) | Abhijit Naskar | Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

My struggle is to build a world, where
gestapo, mi6, cia, raw, all are history;
where thieves aren’t glorified as heroes,
invasion isn’t sugarcoated as security;

military is found only in books of history,
where guns are displayed in museum as relics;
nukes are just defense against celestial threat,
where green sources power all things electric;

where it’s illegal to amass limitless wealth –
food, housing, education, healthcare, are free;
where no one can be politician without license,
where citizens listen to experts, not celebrity.

My struggle is to build a world, where
human rights is a human issue, not legal one;
where equality is not a belief, but the norm –
where human is neither ape nor robot, but human.
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