Sacrificed Today

a poem by Meena Nanda

The enormous roar
of agitation by young’s
the emotional and anxiety upheaval
on the road.
Reservation for progress
to bonsai a big tree
The lust of power-planners
sacrificed today
by the stroke on genius
a police lathe.
Before a doc’ he was a poet.
Anyhow caught in riots.

Talent or poverty is not the issue
the rest is all true.