Our opinions are formed
Our thoughts mediated
By the media
(Not by poetry)
So August fifth
May well go down
Not as the day
Kashmir was wronged
But as the day
The wrongs done to Lord Ram
Were righted
(As if Lord Ram needs us
To right wrongs)
But who knows
The very way in which
One August fifth is
Sought to be overwritten
By another
May result in
The wrong one being remembered
And becoming the right one
Poetic justice?