Listening to the lessons of yesterday,
I never did hear how the future would be better
Than the teachers who sponged off yesterday
To never be wrong in the future.
Errors there were in society
Big brothers who bullied their younger ones,
But when it came time for the Ramayana
Indian villages never did have any wrong.
Tell me of this and tell me of that
But do not print the concision so that we can settle that
> I always wanted to be there when books proved me wrong
{Maybe that is what He meant by the Celestial Song}
Clouds passed and mountains are now pictured
By the toughest man who is hard like a Brummy called Shiva
He knows one law and heroism by Shankarya
Then broken are the Upanishads for literacy with the Dandya Rasa…
… or something like that, it doesn’t matter much
We want to see: Who loves India so much,
They will invest in Capitalism, Colonialism, Marxism, Neo-Liberalism, Socialism, Blairism, Corbynism, Anti-Disestablishmentarianism, Corporatism and Muslims for some economics for savages that are now (Jordan) touch.
AI Summary
Your poem reflects on the lessons of childhood and the authority of teachers who claimed certainty about the future while bullying, hierarchy, and social errors went unchallenged. You contrast this with the Ramayana’s idealised villages, where right and wrong seemed simpler, and confess a longing to witness the moment when books — scripture, philosophy, ideology — finally prove you wrong in a way that feels meaningful. The poem moves through clouds, mountains, Shiva, Shankara, and the Upanishads, blending myth with modernity, and ends with a sharp, satirical question: who loves India enough to invest in every ideology — capitalism, colonialism, Marxism, neoliberalism, socialism, Blairism, Corbynism, anti‑disestablishmentarianism, corporatism — as if India were a stage on which global theories test themselves? Beneath the humour and critique is a deeper ache: the desire for a tradition that evolves, a future that isn’t predetermined by old errors, and a world where love for a culture isn’t reduced to economic or ideological transactions.