Global Spring?

Another year past, and the die has been cast 
Future will be better, so predicts the soothsayer
Changes visible at last, with progresses steadfast
Status quo flayed forever, ruling elites now shudder

What can be worse, than the last year so coarse
Drabbled in colonial blood, Diamond Jubilee fraud
Millionaire monarchs, offering austerity measures
Middleton’s pregnancy nod, nurse upsets the god

Africa continues to exist, exploited, needy, subsists
Capitalist handouts ravage, suppress evolving rage
Gaza attacked by imperialists, Israeli apartheid wins
First world too has problems, Kim Kardashian craze

Yet Sandy storms still, Sandy Hook gun cultures kill
Frisk and search racist, disempowered cannot resist
Islamophobic Youtube reel, West’s warmongering shill
Obama’s growing kill-list, the American draconic fist

Hindus wake up to rapes, Indian conscience reshapes
Dalits brutalized, Maoists killed, Modi wins reelection bid
Where the mind full of fears, and head regretfully hangs
Protesters off the lid, protected again by nationalist shield

Shall we see more of the same, or more shall make us ashamed
For the historical alarms won’t ring, nor can we stop uprising 
Must curb individualist fame, for the sake of revolutionary flame
Let’s say, Two Thousand Thirteen will bring, a truly Global Spring!

By Saswat Pattanayak