It Happened One Fine Day | Murzban Jal

When
One fine day
When the Minister
For
Internal and External Affairs
Fell down from his armchair
When he was reading the story of his life Written by a famous author
His head hit the floor.
And when he got up from the fall He started speaking exactly
The opposite
Of what he was thinking.
And then the masses applauded Not knowing
Of
This terrible fall
Yes, Yes. Applauded
Much more than they applauded yesterday When the Minister
For
Internal and External Affairs
Spoke
Of growing corn from barren soil
Plated with gold
And
Studded with diamonds.
Today
They applauded
And applauded
And applauded
When
Instead of saying
“I am going to crush all of you @###*& And let the soil drench with your blood”
And instead of saying
“Let us make walls and fences such that

You
@###*&
Stay far, far away from us”
He said
Instead
“Enough of crushing anyone And
From now on
No one will be called a @###*&
Now
Let us break all the walls And
Cut all the fences
That
Have caged you
And
All the chains
That have enslaved
You”
And so
The chains got cut
The fences disappeared And
The walls
Crumbled
As if by magic
And we saw corn
Real
Corn
That we could eat
And gold
In the public lavatories.
Sorry
Sorry Ivan Illich We
Once failed you But
Not now!
This time

We
Did not merely wait
For the walls to crumble
Down
By themselves
Or corn
That would be grown without gold plates
The problem
Was
Not
That we dreamt wrongly But that
We
Did not dream at all
And when
Neighboring nations
Heard
That
Walls had crumbled
Down
In our country
And
That
Corn
Would grow devoid of gold plates They too
Rushed
Onto
The streets.
And there too
The walls crumbled down The fences collapsed
The chains broke.
Yes
Ivan Illich
We now can truly dream Once more
And
More and more and more

As
More and more Of walls Collapsed
And
More and more Of fences Disappeared And
The chains
That
Had enslaved us Cut.
We
Can
Now shout
“Free at last Free at last Women
Life
Liberty!
Yes
We are indeed Free
At last!”

— Murzban Jal