Was it my vote?!

So just who are you Judge?And just who are you President?

Who made you the Honourable Judge?Who made you the Honourable President?In My Democracy.
Was it my vote?!

So just how much did you know 14-year-old Hetal Parekh, Mr. Judge,(just so we know how much you felt for her)And just how much did you know Dhananjoy Chatterjee?
The same questions to you to Mr. President.

In what judgment did you sit Mr. Judge?Was it legal, was it moral?
Did you give life to Hetal Parekh, Mr. Judge?Did you give life to Dhananjoy Chatterjee?Maybe you did Mr. President?Did you?

What is "life", to you Mr. Judge?And when does it become precious, Mr. President?
Whom did you hang, when 15,310 people died in Bhopal and 300,000 were maimed by Union Carbide?How many people did you hang when the Children of Kumbakonam roasted in their school?Where did you hang the officials, who rotted grain and caused starvation deaths in Orissa, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and in many other states of India?Why didn't you hang the politicians of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra whose "politics" have caused scores of debt-ridden farmers to kill themselves?And whom do we hang for the destruction the nuclear tests have brought, on a poor tribal community in Rajasthan?

So just who are you Mr. Judge?And just who are you Mr. President? Who made you Judge?Who made you President?In my democracy.
Was it my vote?!

- by Lillian D' Costa

(This a poem found in a christian magazine... by Lillian D' Costa... a very well written poem...I would probably ask Mr. Abdul Kalam the same questions if i meet him....)