Resistance Essay by Aju Mukhopadhay
Resistance Essay
By Aju Mukhopadhay
To the 45th US President
When power conferred by statute and pride
Rotting in the mind makes a man blind
He forgets his limitations and leaves
History, heritage, rights and liabilities behind;
He becomes unsympathetic to others’ entreaties
Drives out Salvadorans and other immigrants
Forgetting that at one time as descendant of Europeans
Venturing into the Newland he too was one of the illegal intruders
Who drove out or drowned in the sea the native dwellers;
Real Americans erroneously called Red Indians,
He forgets that he is a representative of his race
That extremely ill treated the Africans slaves.
Your predecessors the founding fathers of great American civilization
Remembered how they had come and expanded their regime;
Slave trade was abolished and ill treatment stopped in the course of time
Black people were honored as a result of their movements and demand
Your predecessors acceded and invited other humans to their land
To build a Pan-American civilization
Thus the United States has become one of the most powerful Nations.
Even before your emergence as the 45th President
You began making undue hullabaloo, almost inconscient
Shouting foul-mouthed at some other heads of countries
Boasting of possessing much bigger nuclear arsenals
Than available in their armories
Thereby trying to prove your country’s supremacy
Demanding that most of them should remain without nuclear capability;
It’s puerile, incongruous desire which gives birth to nuclear threat
Naturally you are shouted at in turn by the other States.
Understanding that individual brutal force at the present world stage
In larger context, does not give a commandable advantage,
Though in your country many a criminal gunner
Without much control over possessing such arms kills and create terror,
You are compelled to stop shouting and take reconciliatory measures.
It has been noticed that you ridicule foreign leaders you dislike
While commending those of your ilk
You always give threat to other countries which do not follow your trail
Like hastily declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel
You threat your own country’s responsible incumbents bold
Your tendency is to cow down others and take hold
Of things by force giving rise to an idea of forceful domination
Of others, reminiscent of Ku-Klux-Klan though not exactly of
Nazism and Fascism which you might embrace
In favorable circumstance;
Whereas your country is a leading contributor of Green House Gas
A polluter causing Global Warming and Climate Change, changing earth’s face
Whereas the world expects generous contribution of funds from such a rich nation
Towards mitigating pollution and further promise of reducing emission
You suddenly rescinded the Paris Climate Agreement avoiding all responsibilities;
Can you as US President shake off your duties to shave cost, deny all past events
While continuing to remain one of the largest polluters of earth’s environment?
Every dictator declares himself a patriot
Repeats his country’s interest like a parrot.
While you show your rough command over others
They tell of the other traits of your character
Like you had many relationships illicit and serious
With women of dignity, women of red light areas
On the whole your attitude immensely differs from your predecessors.
In spite of all such facts which many a people abhors
It must be admitted that the vital capacity of a hero
With mental strength and physical prowess that you show
If rightly used with humanitarian attitude
Could raise your country to a higher altitude.