Time is not any dog

If not Frontier, read Tribune

If not Calcutta, talk about Dhacca

Bring the clippings from

Organizer and Punjab Kesari

And tell me

Where are these eagles  flying?

Who has died?

Time is not any dog

That can be chained and driven wherever you like

You tell us

Mao says this and Mao says that

I ask you, who is Mao to say anything?

Words cannot be pawned away

Time itself can speak

Moments are not speechless.

You sit in the Ramble

Or drink a cup of tea from a side stall

Speak truth or lie -

It doesn't matter,

You may even jump over the corpse of silence

——-

And O rulers, ask

Your police and tell me

Whether I am imprisoned behind the bars

Or this policeman standing across?

Truth is not a whore of AIR

Time is not any dog.