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Confuse

Let’s confuse TV channels with news
Security Council with peaceniks
Gaddafi and Castro with terrorists
Capitalism with prosperity, progress

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For you, My love

Some say my love, there’s a time for love
An occasion to assert, and to proclaim
For me, my love, there’s none to resolve
Nothing to validate, or rename

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Children

You who dream for better tomorrows for future generations
And yet inculcate in children values of selfish aspirations
Long to see your child leave others behind in the rat race
Must live to then perpetuate and strengthen it’s Fascist face!

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By Any Means

Are revolutions half-won? Cause the war’s always on
When the privileged surrender, do they ever mourn?

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Struggles in Vain?

In the name of justice how many Mississippi Sisters
How many Mumias, Cuban Five, political prisoners
When will have Guantanamo served its purpose
Will the new year liberate conscience of its shackles

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Binayak Sen

India is bleeding, oh my motherland in pain
Her comrades are dying, their revolutions in vain

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Assange! Assange!

You blew the lid off their secret chambers of horror
Their dirty games of wars, you the uncensored narrator
They can ban WikiLeaks, they cannot ban our conscience
Let them impose atrocious bills, they cannot stifle our minds

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New India

Ayodhya verdict finally seals it all
Trust Lord Ram, holy cows or you fall
The more forward we claim we progress
More we hold unto conservative garbage

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Enough Already

Environmental concerns lip-served by business interests
Mountains ravaged, peoples displaced, plundered forests
Insidious attempts at defining freedom, political liberties
Minorities oppressed amidst democratic Colacracies

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Father

You dwell in my life, in each moment of mine
Precious is your presence, forever shall shine

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The Plan

Have we planned enough for the year ahead?
The terrorizing wars, conflicts, military bloodshed
Zionist lobbies, hawkish Hindus, Islamic fanatics
Have we planned enough to defeat Christian clerics?

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Hiroshima

Decades of glaring carcasses

Emphasize countless tragedies

Frantically reassess the losses…

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Lest We Forget

Ides of March sanctions Iran Civilians
In April, 200 killed by US-Iraqi militants
Lebanese die in dozens during May clashes
Come June, Israeli prez free of rape charges

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Lebanon Kills

Lebanon kills our pride in our identities
as we stoically listen to
blatant propaganda against Islam.
Lebanon kills our amicability
the moment we buy into
media definition of terrorism.

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Raindrops

Immerse in me, in life–
Even as I dwell in apprehension
Succumb to intoxication
Of increasing aspiration
Drain in imagination
Of the ongoing revolution

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