Abdullah - A Tall Leader Then Poem by Mohammad Younus

Abdullah -a tall leader then,
Shared dais with a shrewd Indian politician -
Pandit Nehru, P.M. in 1947,
The verses of Khusrao that Abdullah chanted then,
At Lal Chowk -to dupe the gullible population,
'I have become You, and You have become Me;
I am the body, you are my soul;
So that hereafter no one says:
Someone else you are, someone else am I' -
Ended up being the black cobra snake's venom,
That is flowing through our veins and arteries,
Killing us bit by bit, hour by hour,
Our wretched nation carried off down the gutter -
Into the cesspool of subjugation and dehumanisation

Mykoul