Midweek Review
Paralysis in South Asia
By Lynn Ockersz
Birth pangs had she none,
As she chose to be born again,
As a self-rule democratic state,
But a hazardous trek it’s been,
As she tries to shake off,
Heavy hangovers of a feudalistic kind,
That all too often drag her down,
As is happening now on the public stage,
When those elected to top office,
Look outside their governing circles,
For answers to crises weighing them down,
Reducing the breathless babe of democracy,
Into a paralytic badly in need of multiple jabs,
That carry secularism’s Elixir of Life.