Hail!

By Rasika Jayakody -April 28, 2013 

Rasika Jayakody

He was never the

first to shoot

first to kill

first to flee

first to return

first to con

first to perform miracles

first to molest democracy

first to squeeze the breast

of rule of law

and smile innocuously.

He will not be the last too.

He was always

somewhere in the middle,

in the middle of a shady deal

called ‘Politics’,

in the middle of a 21 million tombstones

called ‘citizenry’,

in the middle of the last breath

of justice,

in the middle of a forgetful history

that always repeats itself

as a farce.

Picture by Sanka Vidanagama