We Are One...
despite the
difference
we celebrate
making grounds
to segregate
we are one!
we, the multihued
rainbow
the marvel
of the sky,
the many
coloured
flowers
the flora
and fauna
in the organic
flow of things...
life pulsates
on needs and.
feeds
the essentials
the cosmic
chain offers...
foolish are
we humans
vying with each
to dominate
appropriate
the undue...
the bounty
of nature
equal for all...
let warring
minds
treat all
on a par
with each...
beneath
the skin,
we all the same
all partakers
of this
sojourn
on earth...
Let us
hold hand
to dance,
dance our way
savouring
moments.
life is short
sweet
not to be
taken for
granted...
@myna
Homeless...
....
I search for
home
stranded
in a homeless
world...
they behold with
disdain,
suspicion...
each search for
an abode
ends up, volleys
of questions!
'You,
colured?
how coloured you
are
black, tanned,
brown?
bearded?
what religion
you belong
Islam,
Christian, Hindu?
why such
questions!
funny!
questioning my
dignity as a human.
You treat me as
dirt
though you put
me
to use, full as
an immigrant
worker...
Now new rules
you create
curbing our
freedom to move
ousting us from
our abodes, shelters, temporary...
see I am a
human...
You and me the
same!
beneath the difference skin deep, we breathe
the same air, drink the same water
we laugh and cry
the same...
we the
inheritors of an earth
that spreads for
all
all around...
why divide
it,
demarcate it
with narrow
national
divides!
my place of
birth
has nothing to
offer, save poverty, abject misery, inadequacy!
I wander in vain
In search of a
home...
where will I get
my
legitimate space
as a human,
hardworking...
O, world! can't
you open your eyes
to watch us, the
scattered lambs in search of grass, straying
knocking on
fences of
of meadows
barbed, wired
that deny the
green...
MOLLY JOSEPH
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