The Vampires of The System (in Pakistan)
Like an inverted, uglier version
Of the un-namable Tao,
The vampire that can be named
Is not the vampire.
A toxic chameleon,
A shape-shifting, liquid reptile,
Evil in all its
Colors and shapes,
"Shape without shape, form without form",
The booted bloodsucker
Is like a devilfish:
A poison squirting squid,
A killer octopus with many tentacles
That sucks the blood dry
Of the weak and the vulnerable.
The vampire has titles, it has names,
And yet it is,
Without a name.
They call it
"The taqatwar halqa";
They identify it as
"The khalai makhlooq",
The "handlers", the "qabza mafia".
It is "the establishment", and
"The Mehkama a Zaraat'.
A neutered, cowardly monster
Without balls and backbone,
It is also "the neutral".
Mediocrity, greed and ineptitude---
Impotence all around, without and within
Obscenely paraded as
"Faith, Unity and Discipline"---
Are the cherished "virtues"
Of the depraved devil.
The fish, they say,
Rots from the head down.
His subject steals ten
When the king steals one.
In The System (in Pakistan)
The bloodthirsty vampire king,
Rotten to the core,
Is perennially busy
Pilfering, plundering and raping.
Seventy years and more
Of oppression, violence and gore---
Of crime, betrayal and corruption,
Mass misery, inequity and deception---
Are the sordid gifts of this voracious boar
To the cursed and ever-blighted nation.
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