Migratory Gods

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Abstract, personal and provocative - Nalini Priyadarshni's abstract poem reflects on the role of religion in elections.

Nestling awkwardly between blind faith of
my father and hypocritical disenchantment of mother
at the risk of being dispossessed or abandoned
or both, I must confess that last year
confirmed what I had been suspecting
for a long time that the gods of my father
and forefathers are migratory
while I try not to hold their godmen against

The gods fashioned after the images of men of the cloth
who make it a point to chastise cloisterers in private after dark
The idea of them locking themselves in a temple
At the top of the hill just to avoid ladies who
Might be ovulating unnerve me



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