Snapshots at Border

Children being ripped away

from the arms of their mothers;

parents not being able to see

where their kids have gone;

from within the metal cages

heart-rending cries rising,

asking for their papi, mami—

what a scene of inhumanity!

But in the intense sobbing

insensitivity finds a joke:

child actors staging an orchestra;

only a conductor missing!

Then a jacket causing outcry:

I really don’t care, do u?

Is it a message against ‘fake news’

or demonic ‘zero-tolerance’?

Ajit Kumar Das