Asked the mirror on the wall.
Just because you have two feet and walk tall?
Or is it because you have evolved more than your peers?
Or only because you can express pain and joy with tears?
Just because you have institutions you can attend and
earn a degree?
Or because you can captivate animals in cages and walk
around free?
Have you forgotten why has God made you, you?
To develop a brain, nurture a heart and to all creations
be fair and true…
Only the deserving get a human life they say…
Please answer yourself – have you really lived up to its
precious worth in any way?
I recently received a mail asking to sign a petition
against some people in New Delhi who brutally blinded a pet stray dog and beat him
up. Supportive of the fact that such cruel people are a greater threat than
what we perceive them to be, I signed the petition and shared it on my Facebook
wall. I learnt today that the innocent canine friend passed on. I feel
unnatural coming to terms with the fact that those who can brutally murder a
dog for just barking exist as ‘humans’ in this world. Every life is precious
and no one has the right to destroy it. In a nation proud of its peaceful
heritage such events, coupled with countless similar ones, is unnerving. I truly
hope that justice prevails.
