Treasure Island
Forests of materials
Opened to anyone
With dollars in hands
Wealth of resources
Make dollars by the handful
Disaster made avenues
For research and experiments
An open field for practices
Country becomes
An Open University
But not for the natives
Who were caged into a
Disney world of
Academic Institutions
Making people suitable for
World Bank demanded
Wonder land of
Blue colored neo slaves
How to live as subjects
And to be specimens
Under the microscope
Forever in different forms
At least for a change
Shall we resist?
Or be happy
With eternal slavery
S.Jeyasankar
17.02.2005
(Republished from OPTIONS volume: 36, 1st Issue 2005.
OPTIONS is published by Women and Media Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka.)
