Killing the disabled ticket seller

by Basil Fernando
[June 30, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian]

The Disabled Ticket Seller
With a severe head injury
Found dead ,is the news.

Five more similar cases of beggars
And disabled killed not long ago
Whose hand is behind all this ?

Those who try to beautify the city,
Are they not the suspects?

Moral ugliness of all this
Does not catch
The city dwellers eyes
When a nation is morally dead
Murderer is seen as a purifier
And a beautifier , a liberator , a hero.

Such a nation deserves a dictator.
Weep for my lawless mother land,weep,weep.