Firewall for the Future

Randhir Thiyam
The only password for tomorrow is timely caution.
History’s hard drive is already glitching.
If a people vanish, the map becomes a museum label.
So the gatekeepers whisper a blunt fix: NRC.

First scan the system, then run the census.
Count after the firewall is up.
Sort the files—native roots, refugees, shadows crossing borders.
Not to erase humanity, they say, but to name the folders.

Fences hum like barbed-wire Wi-Fi along the frontier.
Watchtowers blink like sleepless routers.
Security patches for a fragile homeland.
Because a future, like data, survives only if guarded in time.