The Rock-Bodies Sans Conscience Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam

The rock-bodies sans conscience

Why statues of the artists
Are erected and unveiled?
Won't they live in their works eternally?

Enjoying their works is best tribute
To them and not making them mere rock-bodies;

Rock-bodies are to rock-like
Political leaders who never move for the
Benefit of citizens and are selfish ever;

And are inert in or out of power for voters woes or problems;
Always useless like the statue at the four-streets' center;

Politicians corner all benefits of power
Never care even if cornered by citizens at times;

They must be made responsible for their
Heinous crimes of dividing citizens and
Even make them kill one another for their votes
As persons collecting change on dead bodies

They must be made immovable like statues
Never allowing them to contest
And become representatives and rulers of
Innocent and needy citizens

And wailing nation
Burdened under inflation, terror-strikes
Corruption, nepotism, dynastic party establishments
And party-politics making mockery of democracy
In party system and ruling elite

Rock-bodies as statues are not stone-carvings
But our representatives, the moving stones
And personification of lies and greed sans compassion
The rock-bodies sans conscience