TELL IT LIKE YOU SEE IT #10

I paused a moment to reflect
A passing thought
As a boy, I thought as a boy
As a young man, I thought as same
And too as an old-er man I did it too
My thought
No single age ever says, that is perfect
No
We’d rather talk about the mannerless teens
The wild young man who wastes life
In the mind of the older
Who, although having more right to say it
Still, sees all of it as a waste
Yet, as this man says
Life is most precious and beautiful
Now
Can we tell and show the world।

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WE CARE………#11

A scream in the night
A child is lost in fright
His reality shattered by a sudden fear
The parent
Yeh, right
Says, “when will he be a man”
I say, hopefully not yet
Hopefully not that way
I would hold the child
Offer him/her safety in my arms
Looking to see what the child has seen
Looking to understand
What had terrified the child so
Allowing the child their reality
But showing them
We care।

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ALONE……. 12

I cannot help it
I look and I see
Life, ‘piled high’
Blankets on a bed
Only one layer touching
The rest lay unknowingly
Upon that life
As surely as the age
We are surrounded by people
Always
They see us
Never
Society dictates what should be
Adults dictate what is
Yet today, God help us
They give the child free rein
The child is without the map
What is norm and acceptable
How can anyone cry foul
When it is we who let it अरिसे

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STAND, BE COUNTED


I stand alone
I sometimes feel
As if no one understands
Yet, when I listen
In a crowd
There are times
I know some understand
Well
Why am I alone to scream
To the rooftops
All the wrongs
That I see.