Outvoted Once Again
by Ananya S. Guha / May 10th, 2026
They
are now in
A nowhere land
The poor, the dusty
Sitting amidst rubble
As election results blare
Animatedly about wins
Or losses
But who will vote for them
The knock kneed poor
The ones whose homes
Are peripatetic
And whose living
Is broken into
Decrepit heaps of mud
Whose food does not matter
As the wind steals it
And the storm destroys
Their habitat in a burst
Of angry flames
They will outdo time
As they proliferate into
Thousands of importunate
People
The election results blare
In the midst of tumult
And these forsaken souls
They will be outvoted once again
Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India, where he was born and brought up. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last forty years. His poetry has been published in both electronic and print formats such as: Indian Literature, Other Voices, Osprey Journal, Glasgow Review, The Literary Nest, Up The Staircase, Asia Writes, Art Arena, Praxis Online, Muse India, Your One Phone Call, In Between Hangovers, The Peeking Cat Magazine, Post Colonial Text among others. He has also written widely on educational and social matters. He has ten collections of poetry and his poetry has been anthologized in various collections of Indian poetry in English. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding.
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This article was posted on Sunday, May 10th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
