A First Time Voter’s Problems. {The Eighteen Year Old in India}

      A First Time Voter’s Problems.

    {The Eighteen Year Old in India}

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Papa, Can you please say, who shall I vote for?

Those who have ruled us for long, seem to have lost ,

Their makeup manuals, to stay off  the stage.

Parties with their pep for power,

Are a pretty  much  powdered lot.  

I see faces modest, with no mechanism to govern .

There are faces dynamic and daring ,

Sporting a look of arrogance, as outdoor unit.

Others carry a load   of corruption , concealed  in

Puffed  up exteriors, resembling popcorn ,or sugar candies.

Some are colorful, but branded as communal.

Others are secular, with their colors hidden inside.

Faces peripheral, keep shuffling profiles ,quite often.

There are comrades too, with their collars stiffly up;

But their proud names are in the antiques’ list though,

With only their colors and symbols, fluttering high.

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 Mama, Can you please tell me whom to vote ?

 All power mongers here, have a party to float.

 Some lead with an ‘I’ in whatever they say;

 While others say ‘WE’, to keep us in dismay.

 As nothing  creditable  so far, has come to stay,

 I am utterly confused, to choose my way!

 For, on the whole, at any decision making forum,

 Hardly have I seen, an iota of decency or decorum.

You have said pepper is a spice, very healthy and costly;

But in the House, a few vent their ire, spraying it vastly.

I know, mikes are meant for an audible reach of speech.

But members use it often, for actions amply  for a breach.

Why not men sensibly think and speak out the right,

Rather than using paperweight to spill their spite?.

A gang of them, waste nation’s precious time and money,

Busily amassing wealth ,through acts, shady and phony.

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Oh my peers, who shall we rightly vote for?.

There are many in the race, waging a war.

We are new as voters, with hopes for a change,

That should take our country on a ritzy range.

We are ready to press the electronic button

Provided there are, men of merits, well spun.

Will the curtains ever lift for a new generation

To lead the country  with power and passion ?

                                                                             P.Chandrasekaran.