Red Is A Good Colour On Me
When the king falls, and he will fall
Another will sit in his place
And a hundred others will hold him up
& plot his disgrace
They will talk about the politics of bodies
They will gamble these bodies
The woman with five husbands
Was shared property & objects have no agency
He looks at me & averts his eyes
And returns to nineteen eighty-four
But one look is enough,
if it is a smoldering ember
And a body is aflame
Even as the mind cages itself & calls it shame
I turn away & think about another story
Make it one with a slinky red dress, he said
When the dictator is overthrown,
and it is a when not an if
For a thousand others surge forward
every minute in this game of thrones
Right now brave rebels,
bedraggled warriors, passionate sloganeers
And bloodied they go home
to thrones of their own
Silence woman, bring me food,
I have nations to save
I craft a tale of a hero & a brave
done asunder by the siren in red
she consumes him, he fights his way out of her
ravages her, mutilates her for good measure
Trophies are never sweeter
than when they’re bloody
The red is on her face & his hands now
So he roars a roar to drown out what he saw
Steps over her carcass
And pledges to lay down his life for a cause
When the enthroned are dethroned
And the crowned, beheaded
The swords will go back into sheaths of soft bodies
In whose names the wars were fought
In bodies encircled in fire, walking through fire
Enchained forever in red
That is the way of the world
Because politics are games of the man
As they play dice with bodies & call it different names
Another man will sit on another throne just the same
But I can set his mind afire with one look
Start a war with a single wound
Launch ten thousand ships with a smile
When you are property, you own nothing,
You are everything
When the flagpole rises,
I will know I have won
I know it will deplete
But my red dress fluttering,
flagpoles hoisted, to me
right now, they are listening
And the proletariat have risen.
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Written for the prompt – सिन्हासन से उतरो की जनता आती है
