When the nation is imperiled

Tracts for the Times
An art and poetry collective
Election Series

Original artwork by Soumen Bhowmick

When the Nation is Imperiled
by Shujaat Mirza

When the Nation is imperiled
Poetry becomes Dissent
When the discourse is xenophobic
We need not wait
For a letter of consent
To get things straight
We need to plug the mains
to the circuits
And restore all the grids.
Reckoning it might make each of us Count
And Inveigle our fence-sitting souls
To surmount
Our divisive electric fences.