Is There No Place For Us Poem by Balambal Suryanarayanan

Is there no place for us?
In this world of work and fuss?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye tear streams
We are prisoners of a dark dank cell called race
Named so because of the exploitation due to the colour in our face
We are seen as a special terrorist case
Who wants to intrude the superpower's maze
Is there no place for us?
In this world for work, money and jazz?
When I read about recent racial killings
My spine underwent chillings
The human in me cried, " HOLY CHRIST "
Why America, why this new twist?
This event shall mark the start of a new genocidal war
Whichis sure to leave a non-erasable scar
We were afflicted by a chronic disease called BRAIN DRAIN
That forced us to auction our talents to another plain
We left our motherlands for money
To serve the masters for bread butter and honey
We curbed our ITs to get job in Wall Street
We sacrificed our banks for a Goldman Sachs sheet
We avoided our armies and government fiastos
To get jobs in Silicon Valley and other MNCs
But why did we do such a fatal and lethal mistake?
To be gunned down before the eye's of our blood relation's future at stake?
Or to be wrapped down as orphaned dead carcass?
Or to let our heart stabbed down by - " YOU ARE AN ALIEN "dialogues?
I just can't believe these scenes
That were once abolished by noble genes
Dear friends, just tell me
Why did Swami Vivekanand cry DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS
Why did you give him a standing ovation for minutes then?
Why did you go along with Martin Luther King Jr.
To fight the racial discrimination career?
You were the one who gave Rosa Parks
How come could you forget Mandela too soon?
How did you hidethe bright moon?
You had Kofi Annan as your U.N secretary
You honoured Gandhiji and Modiji with a place in your Madame tussauds
You called upon Kalam ji to precide as NASA's wise lord
Why did you help Malala or Satyarti
You had experienced the legacies of Mr. Obama and Lincoln
You awarded Nobel for Wangari Mathai for her green belt
Why didn't you kill us then?
You could have left behind the legacies of the Olympians
Why did you sing " WE ARE THE WORLD " and " WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT BROTHER "
With all sorts of races joined together, oh well whatever
Why did you Oscar us for Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire?
Did Racial discrimination come in command then?
None Were of your colour or your demeanour
You knew ancestors never meant black or white
They just wanted an united sight
Friends and Children of the world listen
Don't see black bodies as illegal
Don't see Coloured bodies as irrational
Don't avoid Hindus Muslims or other religions
At leastfor the cause to be together
Love is the only message of every faith
All we ever really need is your love
It's your talent and personality that should overshadow the world now
Instead of experiencing the darkness of the tomb
Experience the message and faith of the womb
Take a deep breathe
Be a patriot,
Not a dark nationalist tyrant
If you don't push this task of unification
The world will die of disintegration
Together we get the vaccination
Powerful to eradicate racial discrimination
Go countrymen go
We need to win this race call to cut out inequity at the end