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A Nation in Peril

NASIR HASHIM

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I
Witness our crisis-
oriented nation
Adorned with
reactionary cycles
of hate and betrayals

A nation with a flaccid
monitoring system
Emulating the spirit of
the fire brigade
Straddling into
action only after
buildings
smoulder and
crumble into
ashes
Or installing traffic
lights at crossroad
junctions only after
many reported
deaths and
accidents

II
So,
The withering away of the nation’s
pride and identity
Like trampled leaves
scattered by the
scorching dry wind

Yet, people worship
human parasites
Who plundered and
Bled the nation dry
Yet, concerned
activists with
fleeting ideology
Harassed by corrupt
racial, religious
and power-hungry
zealots

III
So, we witness
shameless leaders
Spewing a poisonous ‘culture of dependency’
and the spectre of
a ‘siege mentality’
Through baited
mass media and
enforced
subservience

Slowly but surely, our
nation self-destructs
Denigrating and
decimating their own
kind with unrelenting
blame games

Yet, many recuse into
deafening silence
Ever glorifying their
forlorn expertise and
illusory anecdotes
With a resonating drama
of curing symptoms
but never the disease

IV
Dear netizens of the
moment
The children of
timeless self
and time-bound self
Rise up from your
slumbering existence
Seize and overhaul
this convoluted
exploitative system
And cleanse our
beautiful nation from
the treacherous scums
of society.

– Nasir Hashim

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AGENDA RAKYAT - Lima perkara utama
  1. Tegakkan maruah serta kualiti kehidupan rakyat
  2. Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
  3. Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
  4. Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
  5. Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
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Nasir Hashim
Dr Mohd Nasir Hashim received a PhD in international nutrition from Cornell University. He served as the first chairman of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) for 23 years (1996-2019) and as the Selangor State Legislative Assembly member for Kota Damansara (2008-2013). These days, he enjoys writing poems, painting and playing the harmonica
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