Here we stand here looking through the windows of your homes
watching you live your commonplace lives
reading, playing, arguing without fear
navigating your mundane troubles
relishing your ordinary joys.
.
Here we stand, mere shadows of what we could have been
No fault of ours was it, but just a quirk of fate-
that snatched the protective wings from around us
and threw us defenseless into a world
which dared us to survive.
.
We soon found a Home, but no family like yours
Only demons to kill our souls
and leave just the dry shells of what we were
Humans they could not be for how could any
human do what they did to us?
.
Here we stand, looking into your homes,
Hoping that you will look up
And perhaps help us to live lives like yours
Just ordinary, mundane lives
That’s all we wish for.
and IF one family helps jsut ONE another family .. HOW beautiful our country , our great nation will become .. and then together we can start a journey towards INDIA SHINING !!!!!!!!
Yes, let us hope that this will happen.
Wow! Manju – A post that may seem different from the previous. But the anguish that is always present in your observations but presented in a different style. I always wonder about the quirk of fate. Mundane lives in so many ways but yet so different. Life can be unfair for so many and for no fault!
Yes, life can be so unfair for many. It is particularly heartbreaking when we see children struggling to survive- and some unscrupulous people taking advantage of them.
quirk of fate or our karma or karmic investments.whatevr the name you give it, but i totally agree with Bikram..would be bliss if we could do it.
Yes, it would be bliss…..
tough life to live… life is always greener on the other side?
Perhaps. And life is inherently inequal. But some children are given no chance at all…..
Instead of giving freebies and reservation policy, if we pull them up with proper help like basic quality education and show compassion, they also will come out to live happily with the others.
This is a different type of post…like a poetry, Manju. Nice.
Yes, basic quality education etc. should be available to all. What is needed is equality of opportunity. What a person does with that opportunity is upto him/her.
Yes it looked like a poem. Life is like that.
More prose than poem, I’m afraid.
Yes, life is like that. But I think something is wrong with a society that cannot take care of its children. Does not bode well for the future of our nation….
I need to clarify. For them life is like that. I fully endorse your views.
Yes. I understand.
Here we stand,
unplanned in birth,
ignored and abused in life,
and told
to consider ourselves lucky
that we
were allowed to be born at all.
The walls keep changing,
the roof exists in theory,
and we are
part of
ledgers and registers
that earn their keepers
a pat on the back.
Save the girl child,
Save the tiger,
Save X, Save Y,
and we shudder
because our hell starts
when funds get allocated.
The cat in our institute
is happy
because
he/she is not
being officially saved.
Does anyone think of saving our
battered ,
abused,
depressed,
minds ,
so
we can start believing
in humans
again?
Exactly what I wanted to express, Suranga! You say it so much more effectively.
We dont have the slightest idea as to aches and pains of others
I have to agree.
So beautifully said Manju and Suranga added the final touches. the mind weeps for the unfortunate ones amongst us. Can’t a billion hearts weeping change things or is it just some who are listening to the wails of these unfortunate souls?
Thank you.
I have a sad suspicion that the second is true. There are some causes which are socially acceptable and some that are not.
Also if the guilty are influential, many people tend to turn a blind eye.
Powerful message! We need to do our bit.
Thank you. Yes, we do!