VIJAY KUMAR ROY - THE PROGENY OF FANATICS

A PhD in English Literature and LLB from LN Mithila University, Darbhanga, and CELTA from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vijay Kumar Roy is the author of Realm of Beauty and Truth: A Collection of Poems (2016), Premanjali (2009), a collection of poems in Hindi, and editor of The Melodies of Immortality (2012), an anthology of poetry, besides editor of and a dozen academic books.
He teaches English at Northern Border University, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has also taught at SRM University, NCR Campus, Ghaziabad, UP and two other universities. He is editor-in-chief of Ars Artium (http://www.arsartium.org/index.html), a widely indexed international research journal of humanities and social sciences published from New Delhi. He can be contacted at: [email protected].

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​                            The Progeny of Fanatics                                           
 
 
The progeny of fanatics
are busy everywhere
to influence you
and bring you under their clutches
to tame you
and make you a puppet.
They preach that
usurping others’ powers and lands
changing history and geography
converting others’ ancestral faith
and spreading hatred
to achieve their written goals
give them place in heaven.
The world has seen
so many ultraists
who changed the maps
and notions of nations
by their ill-gotten might.
Either fear of death
or love of intimacy
or self- made theories of temptation
helped them achieve their goals
and leave behind their true adherents
even after centuries
to plant the same plants
to re-ruin all
that took centuries in creating
by true adherents of the Lord.  
In oblivion
my eyes are tired
to see the Unseeable
but His scriptures tell me the truth
as you show, so shall you reap
today or tomorrow.
It’s a cycle, coming and going:
generating, operating and destroying 
to run the universe
and keep all these ongoing
going, going and going…