Ransom Note Poem #5
Caitlin Roper

From: “Indian Who Built Yoga Empire Starts Work on the Body Politic”
The New York Times. April 18, 2010

Haridwar,
Swami Ramdev,
we are very frustrated.

“Be Indian,” he said.
“Speak Indian languages. Wear
Indian clothes. Drink Indian
drinks.”
he argues,
“Yoga can rescue India.”

Coca-Cola and hamburgers
weaken the Indian spirit and
he thinks that he can fix
all the wrongs.

God has given him some gifts, but his
ego will finish him.
Politics will puncture him.
He will be consumed by the dirt
of politics.

“I am very powerful,” he averred
in an interview. “The people
love me.”

“Now I see the light
after the night.” he said.
“If India is saved,
then the whole world will be
saved.”

Swami Ramdev,
I want change for the next generation.

CAITLIN ROPER is an American poet currently living in Southwest Florida. She has found that the best way to kick writer’s block in the face is to hold the written word ransom. There is poetry waiting in everything—even the business section of your local newspaper.

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