Remains

Remains of houses tell story Remains of castles convey history Remains of species prove ancestry Remains of tools show mastery Remains of language imply complacency Remains of humans bring to light Our stupidity Our atrocity Our false sense of superiority Our life’s futility Above all Our absurdity Inspired by & Img src : Wang Bing […]

Normalizing

When you see rough handling of children But don’t do anything, you’re normalizing child abuse When you see your fellow beings dehumanized But don’t do anything, you’re normalizing hate When you see powerful exploiting the powerless But don’t do anything, you’re normalizing tyranny When you see people getting subsumed by hatred But don’t do anything, […]

Privileged Idiot(s)

If you see the evil around you Yet think you’re safe then you’re a PI If you derive happiness from the sorrows of the oppressed Not realizing you would be next then you’re a PI If you feel superior to others Just because of your birth then you’re a PI If you do not lend […]

Who saves the world?

Simone Weil curtailed her food intake To be in solidarity with her fellow humans Who were subjected to tyranny in another country Aaron Bushnell self immolated As an extreme form of protest against a plausible Genocide That was perpetrated in a faraway land An English mom living a comfortable life Sheds tears for those children […]

Shut Down

You shut yourself down From the deafening cries of help From the terrible plight of others From the humiliation of the voiceless From the insanity that’s out there Only to feel comfortable In your own little bubble You think maybe you’re lucky To live your life in an unbreakable bubble But always remember, Bubbles do […]

Complete Faith or Utter Hopelessness?

One wonders why people are/do good when one sees A co-passenger sharing food with someone who failed to order food A few strangers helping out another stranger to have a seat at a restaurant An asylum seeker jumping on track to save a person who wants to commit suicide A person thousands of miles away […]

They make you Human!!

It takes courage to say “I don’t know” But it takes curiosity to find out what you don’t know It takes conviction to say “I am sorry” But it takes humility to feel sorry It takes bravery to say “I am afraid” But it takes intellectual clarity to deal with what you’re afraid It takes […]

To Be or Not to be???

To be or not to be a misanthrope One wonders all the times Evil that we do to each other Hardly leaves space for trusting others The lengths to which we go To humiliate others know no bounds The steps we don’t take to Prevent others getting hurt are indeed abound The million ways we […]