Ilankai Tamil Sangam
Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USA
Published by Sangam.org
by Chandi Sinnathurai
How many more generations
will have to die for liberation'
reducing our population?
How much more expatriation
will happen using this as an accusation
Often facing unlimited incarceration?
How many more times
will our people get caught in spin-doctrination
with substanceless farce of proclamation?
How many more cuckoos will fly over the nests
for us to open our eyes to pure fabrication?
Alas! only the poorest of the poor
Will stay here to starve and die
and to keep alive the skeleton of liberation?
They are the ones who end in cremation...
A heap of skull and bones crying for redemption
Our "shield and protection."
Who will sing the plight of our nation?
Who will scream our frustration?
Who will be our consolation?
How many more poor
will have to shed their blood
for liberation?
How many more tears
will we need to shed
by making the point
Of pointlessness
In a rich-man's world?
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