For the Love of Silver

By Praniti Gulyani

For the love of silver, you bit –
Through the broken bread of brotherhood
You traded our mirth, our joy, our wit
Why? I’ve never understood

For the love of silver, you crushed
The parchment of promise and pledge
All that was silent and carefully hushed
You tossed it, o’er the hedge

For the love of silver, you merged
The ideologies of ‘friend’ and ‘foe’
And when those with swords emerged
You wailed in untrue woe

Swimming towards the silver, that dangled
From the Roman Fishing Bait
For the love of silver,
Judas Iscariot –
You exchanged faith!