My Right to Hate

If they can have their rogues, why can't I have my thugs too?
If they can nurture hate, why censure me when the same I do?

It is my right to hate and fear... all those who are not like me...

And to repress and suppress all those who presume to be free!

If they can fetter their women and treat them as lesser beings...

Why the shock and the mock when I treat mine as personal things?

How dare these girls walk upright... they can’t script their fate

The open celebration of love is an affront to my right to hate!

My very culture is at stake... the leash cannot be set free

The reasoning of humanism can never deter my tribe or me...

My right to hate is truly supreme and sans any challenge

It is fuelled by age old wrongs that deserve resolute revenge!

Our enemy are those who flee our morality enclosure

Who dream of a society of free and open disclosure...

We must watch out for them... they on the other side

We must hate them and fear them and hit them and hide!

Our rights are under severe threat from all those humanist nuts...

Their sweet saccharine smiles make me want to empty my guts!

And worse are the religious ones who read the same things that I do...

Yet they believe in love and compassion for those other people too?

Those who protest our mission are the ones who walk the wrong way...

Their lives are immoral and evil, where sisters are permitted to stray!

What a silly thing to believe that we all are one and the same...

And that my lofty hate campaign is illogical and legally lame?

Our right to be regressive cannot be ever suppressed

The ideology of hate needs newer followers impressed...

So let’s spread the canard of settings things right...

The ones like us, on the other side, will help our fight!

Merchants of hate, in every corner, need a common plan

One which talks of values and violence with the same élan!

We must get together to fight ... a fight for true democracy

Where the right to hate must be one of equal opportunity!

-        Pravin Sabnis (27 June 2012)