Rhea Gupta, Poetry 2021 Shortlist

 The Psychopathic God  (Within all of us)

Through the comfortable complicity of the common,
timeless totalitarian terrorism spins
like rusted metal blades in
a mixer-grinder
mincing countless
human identities
to a bloody pulp;
the feverish frenzy of
fascism pervades through
the ordinary
brains, eyes, tongues,
reviving The Psychopathic God
within all of us.