Sri Lanka Guardian/ Poem

By Victor Karunairajan

Everywhere we find the against people
Nightmare to others when they relate
Scourge unto themselves they are too
Being against is their mind and nature.

What does make these against people?
How I hunger to know their thoughts
They think, behave and act most oddly
E’en when faced with minimal matters.

They are among us Tamils and Sinhalese
Muslims, Burghers and Malay folks too
For thirty terrible blood-splashing years
We thrust our land into chaotic doom.

Hatred has no class or communal divide
For Tamils hate Tamils Sinhala likewise
Tamils hate Sinhalese, they too as well
The is factual for other Sri Lankans too.

What really causes such a terrible state!
I do wonder whether it’s our own ego
Determines for ever our frame of mind
Maybe ignorance or lack of confidence

What should we do with against people?
Keep them, love them and or trust them
And award them chances to come clean
Banished of ghosts that do power them!

Surely I do not like the against people
But they are us too, ours, kith and kin
They all have civil rights and liberties
As much we do wherever we are too.

What such against people need to do
Accept we are all their kindly beings
And this land of ours and wide world
Is our own great eternal inheritance.

We have to protect and cherish them
For our own many generations to be
Over years, epochs, and eons of time
Thus we ought not be against people.