There is a village
which sits on my shoulders like a vulture …
despite this O my village
I uninvited relate with you
as you fly
within and outside of me
like a vulture
Excerpt from "Bayan-Bahar" the autobiographical poem of Sukhveer Singh, a Hindi Dalit Poet. Dalit Nirvachit Kavitayen (Selected Dalit Poems) from here.
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