YOU WANT!

You want water draw from the well, you want power trap from the sun!

You want fuel take from your own fields, want food cultivate the lands!

Those are the SC&ST Dalits ways of living peacefully and with Justice!

In harmony with all neighbours and with our surroundings and Nature!

Leading an environment friendly life based on sustainable development!

You can’t hope to sit at home saying you are close to all your nameless

And faceless gods and goddesses that have no real value or any worth!

Have prayed with big huge offerings to bribe pacify please soothe them

Invoke all their blessings backings or co-operation for support and gifts

To get all the rarest of the rare and exclusive boons you want and seek!

Feel great having born in a big family and coming from dominant castes,

Owning huge and large tracts of lands to exploit illegally and otherwise!

Go on exploiting everyone or everything around as if they are perennial!

Keep thinking everyone will bear everything like old days of your good!

And everything around is inexhaustible for you to exploit swindle waste!

That a sure path to future difficulties shortages doom and your sad end!

Learn from surroundings, responses of land, and flowing water moods!

Respect them, deal with due humility and understanding, if you do want

To survive, and not to burn your hands or future anymore in these days!

In quick changing environment of your surroundings and social influence.

- a dalit

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