No Impediment to Triumph (Bhopal)

Just reeks of a squalid victory It drifts downwind Does this squalid camaraderie Play to the gallery With woolly humanity As valued above - well above the valueless Pumped up, trumped up, shrugged off No impediment, no impediment No impediment to triumph Rings burned, rings burned into the retina, transfixed Back-handed unity Bhopal gags on the reverie As valued above - well above the valueless So easily slipped are shackles Of culpability, of culpability No impediment to triumph No impediment to triumph No impediment to triumph No impediment to triumph Brandish the torch that shines No light on the wretched and malformed At pains to sustain But the only thing sustained is Free rein for a mass poisoner A triumph? No