Protect Me
Protect Me
Protect me from Internal Invasions
Hail army men
For saving the country
Day in and day out
From enemy’s invasion
Protecting the borders
Across all seasons
Irrespective of the
Temperatures around.
But in the landscape
I live in while I go to
Sleep, I know my
Country is safe
In your hands
Army men but
It is becoming difficult to believe
If I am safe.
I travel from the airport
To home in the midnight
After completing my office duty
Someone pounces on me
Not sure whom to trust
Whom not to trust
Can you protect me
From these internal invasions
I write a report
Some feel that is
Not right, has a view
Which I respect
But I am targeted
For the views expressed
Can you protect me
From these internal invasions
I go to deliver a lecture
Some students
Haunt and tear me
Even before I utter
A word for or against
For they believe
I am not the cadre
To be respected
Can you protect me
From these internal invasions
I do my job
As designed by the organisation
I come out
Someone from the company
Puts my head to rest
With an Iron rod
At my back
Can you protect me
From these internal invasions
Suddenly a mob arrives
Cutting out people
Saying you are not
From our community
You don’t have the right to live
Can you protect me
From these internal invasions
My list goes on
A page or two
May not be sufficient
To express my anguish
I fear, while we are equipping
With all modern weapons
We are forgetting equipping
Individual with moral and fear
If not we would not have seen
Body butchered into hundreds
Of pieces, packed in a suit case
Either near the rail tracks
Or the bush near by
Protect me from these internal invasions