Condemn, criticize and compensate

Hello government,

Do you even care?

Do you know who am I?

What is the price of my life?

What is the slab I fit in?

If I am just grievously hurt,

Rendered cripple till death,

Are few lakhs enough for years left?

Hello government,

Do you even try?

Why lives get blown to smithereens?

Your intelligence is dead it seems.

What does the future hold?

For the orphans of terror strike,

Are few lakhs enough to educate?

Where knowledge is sold at high rates.

Hello government,

Yes it is cowardice,

But cowards you too are.

Condemning in words as enemy wages war.

Will there ever be a day?

When a life can rest assured,

Will you ever be able to foil?

An act of terror on own soil.

Hello government,

Do you ever grieve?

Or is it just another blast, another day?

Just condemn, criticize and compensate.

Human rights hypocrisy

I am a soldier,

Do you know me Mr. Human right?

I guard the borders,

So you can sleep in night,

I am not trigger happy,

And I too don’t want the fight.

I patrol the barbed fences,

Do you think I do it for myself?

If I needed to be safe,

I would be hiding like you as well,

So why do I risk my life?

Mr. Human right, will you please tell?

I too have a family,

Are you aware they exist?

Why do you only see the rights?

Of murderers, rapists and terrorists,

Why don’t you ever speak for me?

Truth, it seems, you love to resist.

Do you not speak of me?

Because it won’t get you known,

Why in the name of humanity?

Why only hypocrisy is shown?

It is my blood that irrigates remember,

The seeds of democracy you’ve sown.

Mr. Human right will you,

For once be a human being,

When the enemy takes away my head,

For my rights, will you scream?

I know it is a question vain,

But Mr. Human right, will you ever feel?

Colour of my Skin

I have listened to this evil all my life,

I am fair and man, you aren’t bright,

A thought always troubled my mind,

Why it matters, if I am black, brown or white?

Does it make me any less, if I have the shade?

If I am all burnt up and you are too fade,

Why is it an issue, of the colour I am wearing?

But the colour of my skin, I can never change.

It has been like this since forever,

White has always been treated better,

People bleaching self to colour bright,

Dark means bad and white is the light,

You are dark, no love you will get,

White is the skin of lover best,

You wear dark, you will always lurk,

In the shadows as white reaps success.

They sell brightness packed in tubes tiny,

Turn white, girls will flock, black stays whiny,

Being dark it seems, is a sin unpardonable,

No wonder these come with superstars on label,

Just take a look at matrimonial that exist,

Reflecting like a mirror, discrimination we commit,

Is being not milky white such a big sin?

Why still discriminate for the colour of the skin? 

Courage

I had a look at the towering sky,

It created in me a budding desire,

One day I will be kissing that high,

Inside kept burning that fire,

In my dreams I could see,

Myself sleeping on the clouds,

I touched the moon, kissed the sun,

I could fly in peace all around,

That day finally came indeed,

I tried to climb out of the hell,

Standing tall the Everest bellowed,

Can you make your dream real?

So began my tryst with destiny,

My knees ached and asked to stop,

But the heart beckoned to carry on,

I could hear the call of the frozen top,

I braved the chills, faced the winds,

Sleeping and eating at thousand feet,

I tasted snow, I drank the ice,

Went on though my nose began to bleed,

The wind tried to stop my ascent,

Filled snow in boots, snow in my clothes,

Could hardly see, could barely breath,

Snow in my eyes, snow in my nose,

But I kept pushing on and on,

My courage never allowed me to sag,

For this dream I wanted to live,

The dream I lived as I planted my flag,

And up there did I ponder,

If a man can overcome the odds so big,

Why is it hard for peace below?

Why songs of love are hard to sing?