A  TIME  FOR  CHANGE

 

By Aubrey Millet

 

Potential    fault lines in  the  bowels  of  our  psyche

Waiting for Tsunamis to breach the dyke

Tectonic  plates  in seismic semi- slumber

Brooding, seething  cauldrons, rumblings of rancour

Belching bile and rancid to the taste

Ill-gotten  lucre is all the haste

Ghostly    silhouettes

Overturned   shibboleths

Chlorinated   countenance of   non-celibate  godmen

Ministerial  mafia  with gun-totting   gunmen

Politicians  wallowing  in murky   waters

Honour   killings and dowry   burnt daughters

Incompetence   Babus   schooled   at  Mussoorie

Totally subservient  to   a   minister’s   fury

Fissures   in   families

A   calculus of convulsions

Black  stains  on  white,   like  spotted  dalmations

Land   scams and  terrorists,  forest - land   reclamations

Residue   of   residents   putrefying  garbage

Concentric   circles   of   official   patronage

The   uncaring   politicians’   blatant   insouciance

Corroding   the   metal   of   a   nation’s   conscience

Collusions   of   silence

Official   compliance

Cesspools   of  corruption   and   plagiarized   science

Time   for  change  and  to   find   a   solution

Or   else  we   are   ripe  for   a  people’s   revolution.

Aubrey Millet studied Economics at Loyola College in Madras (now Chennai), then completed his Post Graduation in Business Management at XLRI (Jamshedpur). He went on to head the Marketing Department of a major automotive battery company. He then founded his own consultancy and training firm. He is currently Professor of Marketing and Human Resources Management , and Head of the Department of Management, MVJCE , Whitefield, Bangalore, India. He can be reached at millet.aubrey@gmail.com