Cupboard Children

A secret revolution

No more reckoners of foreboding

 

The naïve and disillusioned

 

They are tethered to their poles of blindness

 

Of sacred cows and they deem their better days!

 

 

 

We are here for fortunes

 

Unlike these coward, yellow-bellied folks

 

Who pretend clearing up jungles of ignorance in search of

 

Hegemony.

 

 

 

Ha-ha-ha, the man with protuberant belly

 

He has gobbled more than he relish

 

Yet he laughs and regurgitates

 

The chewed up indoctrinations.

 

 

 

Tsk-tsk-tsk, the long-faced stepford wife

 

She sews and bakes and gossips and obeys

 

What her bullying man says

 

NO MORE SPOILED CHILD!

 

With smoking mates or booze-soaked friends

 

 

 

But I heard their child reads

 

Solzenithsyn

 

In a dark cupboard with a feeble light,

 

Chinese democracy in houses I hear

 

Vehement yet feeble with plaintive looks

 

Its resounding echoes gallop,

 

Through the constitution, through the papers of ministries.

 

And there’s no mood for a firm revolt

 

But it’s growing feebly.

Reviews

[DelicateSymphony]

Good job!

[Vaidehi]

Very very nice...

[Laughing-Bear]

A very powerful write masterfully painted with words so vivid that only chosen blindness could miss this painting. I thought your line, “They are tethered to their poles of blindness”, was such a clear illustration of a problem worldwide that I wondered why I had not stumbled onto this concept of spoken word before.
Two words in you poem I thought I knew but to be certain I had a clear understanding of them I looked them up, they are listed below. Both words were an excellent choice as they helped with the brush strokes of this painting.
A clear example of a writer who has the eyes to see the root of a problem and sheds a few rays of hope that with the Cupboard Children some day the light of hope might just burst forth to bring about positive, lasting change for mankind. A most excellent expression of thought!

Blessings, Laughing-Bear

hegemony |həˈjemənē; ˈhejəˌmōnē|
noun
leadership or dominance, esp. by one country or social group over others : Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871.

vehement |ˈvēəmənt|
adjective
showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense : her voice was low but vehement | vehement criticism.
DERIVATIVES
vehemence |ˈviəməns| noun
vehemently |ˈviəməntli| adverb

[Sukriti Suki]

nice, the idea of a slow revolt..