Hate

We are tired…

Pregnant women raped.

A girl raped to death.

A girl raped and burnt to death.

Sisters raped by their brothers.

Daughters raped by their fathers.

Girls sold for prostitution.

Wives are beaten at home by their in-laws and husband.

Wives forced to have kids because her in-laws want to revisit the experience of watching a kid crawling around!

Man murdered because he had dark skin. Don’t forget, that he shouted: ” I can’t breathe”!

Man beat up because he was thought to be COVID positive.

A mentally unstable man beaten because he was thought to be “trespassing”.

Read all these before you read the next line. Okay?

Now, this is the society we live in. This is the life we fancy poems about. This is the life on whose threshold we await a cherry-scented fairy tale.

And a member of this society feels it highly justified to slaughter a pregnant elephant. And in an unfathomable way!

You might say, “But bro/sis, there are good people too. “

Well, I will just say that if you feel that the fact that “there are good people too” nullifies the badness lurking in this society then God help you!

In a society where one half of it treats the other half as objects, as machines to cook, clean, and give birth to babies, if it treats one half of this pseudo united society as objects to have fun with for some time, and then fling them away in some dank corner, then how can we expect this same society to be merciful towards a pregnant elephant?!

Perhaps a highly delusional thought of this helpless elephant causing harm to their ‘fragile life’, provoked her murderers to indulge in one of the most grotesque plans that one can ever make! Or perhaps not! Moreover, humans don’t need a cause to inflict cruelty nowadays, do they?!

[Thank God she wasn’t a human being, otherwise, she would have been probably raped before being murdered!! ]

This society with its decrepit representatives has dirtied its soul in the tears and cries of helpless victims, men, women, animals, trees, and the Earth.

How does it plan to survive in the days to come is a big question that is posing itself, more now than any time before!

We are giving statuses with the elephant’s picture with her baby in her womb. I am writing lines inked with hatred for this society.

But the unfortunate truth is, after some time, you will go back to where you were. Probably cooking, or doing your house chores, I will go back to writing, while ashes born of the burnt body of that raped girl, cries of a girl being raped, sighs of an unborn child of a betrayed elephant will haunt this air that our lives soak in to thrive.

How do we smile so easily after all this? How do we sit at expensive cafes and click selfies after this?

Is that inevitability? Going back to where we started from? This poor ‘old’ chap doesn’t know. He/She is sad to witness the power of inevitability quieting every storm that rises in this heavy heart of his/hers. He/She is agonized to fall prey of time, that heals every wound, without even asking.

 I know that Whatsapp will delete my status after 24 hours. Our minds will delete the incident maybe over a delicious bite of a cheesy pizza. But people if you are reading this, please please please don’t forget so easily.

I am not going to.

Ps: For people getting ready to criticize me, for this particular piece, I don’t care about your criticisms.

Thank you. – rustleofleaves89

Gender-based locker rooms

THEY LABEL HER A “TOMBOY”
WHEN SHE BEHAVES IN WAYS “NOT FEMININE ENOUGH.”
THEY CALL HER NAMES WHEN THE
LENGTH OF HER SKIRT “IS NOT LONG ENOUGH.”
THEY EYE HER WHEN THE COUNT OF HER BOY FRIENDS
IS MORE THAN YOUR GIRL FRIENDS.
THEY FEEL THE FAIRER SHE IS, THE EASIER IT
WOULD BE TO GET HER MARRIED OFF.
THEY START ASKING QUESTIONS WHEN SHE IS 25 AND UNMARRIED.
SOMEHOW SHE IS EXPECTED TO BE WELL VERSED WITH THE
INTRICACIES OF COOKING, KNITTING AND OTHER CHORES WORTHY OF GIRLS.
FROM THE CURVES OF HER BODY TO THE COLOUR
OF YOUR SKIN ARE ALL ATTRIBUTES OF A SHELL THAT
ENCLOSES A BEAUTIFUL PEARL INSIDE.
NO ONE CARES TO LOOK AT THE PEARL,
BECAUSE FINDING FAULT IN THE SHELL, IS EASIER.

So, A Happy Woman’s Day to all those beautiful pearls, white, pink, chocolate, purple, lavender or black (and the list goes on) whichever colour you have painted yourself in.
It’s not about believing and assigning one particular day to be regarded as ” special” for women and then every day causing harm, pain and disrespecting them. It’s not about proving to one another who’s the superior one. It’s not about throwing stones and playing the blame game. It’s not about falling in love together one day and the very next day demeaning each other cause you both realise the purpose has been served. We are not here to praise any one particular sect of the society but to remind ourselves and others, it’s upon us and only us to keep the humanity alive. So that people can still have faith on us, so that the creator doesn’t have to repent on His/Her decision why had he sent Adam and Eve that day.
We should learn to co-exist. One cannot survive without the other. There has to be harmony within and amongst us. Doing someone harm or causing them pain isn’t going to change anything but only more suffering will be waiting somewhere around the corner for us. Be careful because once a legend said, “What goes around, comes around.” So why practice hate? If you don’t love or like anyone anymore it doesn’t mean you have to hate him/her. The person you loved once doesn’t become a terrorist if the feeling changes eventually. Grow as a human being. Cause love is the greatest religion you can ever follow. Respect others. Respect others choices.
Stay together. Stay safe. And stay happy because at the end that’s all that matters, whether you are happy or not?
Smile and let other’s smile.