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Might-Right-Veto

Ehsan Sehgal is a Pakistani-Dutch poet and writer. He moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to avoid persecution during the General Zia era in Pakistan and has lived in the Netherlands since. Ehsan Sehgal began his literary career in 1967. His first publication was a novel, but his consequent books were…

Who has connections,
He is great and greeted
Who has not,
He is minor and mistreated
To kill,
Innocent Peoples
Now it is diplomacy
They are keeping
In their hands, veto
But they are preaching
To us democracy
We, people
Of the blue planet
Have to realise anyhow
It was always; it is always
It will always be that
Where is a might;
There all is right.