Is this Life?

 Is this Life?

Alone striding on the road 

at night,

Nothing around her,

nothing at her sight.

 

She is hearing steps

behind her back.

Feeling very scared,

everything is black.

 

So she decides to turn back,

full of fear,

Every step she takes,

feeling someone is coming near.

 

She is scared

that someone would take her away,

Oh god! This must be

a very bad day .

 

She has decided she will never

come back on this road .

After all this feels like

carrying a lot of load.

 

Sadly now, She has been

gone by the same

It had happened!

What she feared the name .

 

They only worried and screamed

Their warnings are invested, fool dreamt

if she had listened, they thought

But, tell me what, should the quest be submerged a lot?

 

Rescuers had no place for the day,

Neither will they today.

How long will things

be this way?

 

Why do people have to live with

this fear in their mind?

Why are there only

a few people left kind?

 

Then why are we taught

Tagore's "Where the mind is without fear "?

There are so many

weird things happening here.

 

Let's act upon the rude,

though the step is crude,

You cannot bring these lives

even with a million dimes.

 

Let's take a pledge,

and stop these being done,

for there will only be bad people,

and "good" left none.

 

- Avani Sood

Student,
Bangalore
 

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