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Fire, fire, everywhere,
As far as the eye can span;
Fire across the continents,
Fire in the mind of man.
The oceans rise, the waters fall,
Yet fire defeats deluge;
Governance is a fireball,
Fire inflames the stooge.
Centuries of progression
From animal to reason
Now burn at the tyrant’s stake
As treachery and treason.
Bullets lurk in syllables,
Wrapped in the fire of hate;
New commandments are etched in fire
Of the infernal state.
Fire fears the temperate
As lies fear the truth;
Fire is out to incinerate
Love, innocence, ruth
Money fuels fire across
A volcanic firmament;
Merchants of fire will occupy
God’s own seat of good intent.
Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.
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