"MeLord is an Honourable Man"

 

Friends, Indians, Hindus, hark! dark days ahead;                                   

I come to cremate a be-headed dead,                                                                                                                         

A blameless soul, not to protect him.                                                                                                                      

The sin that humans perform lives after death;                                                                                                  

The good is mostly burnt with the bones;                                                                                                                

So let it be with the guiltless soul. The gracious MeLord                                                                                    

Hath blamed that comment from an arrogant woman:                                                                                           

If it were true, it was a dreadful burden,                                                                                                                    

And dreadfully hath blameless soul paid for it.                                                                                                     

He was just performing his Karma,                                                                                                                            

And the brutal dagger guided by brutal ideology:                                                                                                  

Gave him the most unkindest cuts.                                                                                                                        

Here, under umbrella of MeLord and others-                                                                                                            

For Melords are honourable men;                                                                                                                                  

So are they all, all honourable men-                                                                                                                          

But, honourable man should be above suspicion:                                                                                                    

Just like the wife of Caesar.                                                                                                                                              

Come I to mourn in, headless corpse's cremation.                                                                                                        

He was neither my friend nor foe and just human to me;                                                                                         

But MeLord says the spokeswoman was arrogant;                                                                                                  

And MeLord is an honourable man:                                                                                                                               

But, honourable man should be above suspicion:                                                                                              

Just like the wife of Caesar.                                                                                                                                     

She has argued well in many a debates in Delhi                                                                                                  

Whose reasons appreciated by all:                                                                                                                                 

Did this in woman seem arrogance?                                                                                                                           

When one rogue mocks Lord Shiva, she replied from history;                                                                                

Yet rogue was Pardoned and able woman castigated.                                                                                     

Arrogance should be made of mean stuff:                                                                                                             

Yet MeLord says she was arrogant;                                                                                                                              

And MeLord is an honourable man:                                                                                                                             

But, honourable man should be above suspicion:                                                                                                     

Just like the wife of Caesar.                                                                                                                                             

You did see that in Delhi politics,                                                                                                                               

Many a times she fought elections honestly,                                                                                                         

Where she could have misused power: was this arrogance?                                                                                  

Yet MeLord says she was arrogant;                                                                                                                              

And sure, MeLord is an honourable man:                                                                                                                   

But, honourable man should be above suspicion:                                                                                                      

Just like the wife of Caesar.                                                                                                                                             

I pen not to condemn what Melord spoke,                                                                                                                   

But here I am to pen what I feel right.                                                                                                                         

You all did like guiltless gentleman once, for his simplicity:                                                                                    

What fear stops you than, to mourn and speak for him?                                                                                              

O justice! thou reason swayed by violent ideology,                                                                                                  

And justice has lost the reason. Stand with me;                                                                                                               

My heart is in the in the funeral pyre with poor soul,                                                                                                  

And I must wait till the killers and their ideology is wiped out. 

 

(Based on William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, speech by Marc Anthony)