Humanity’s Journey
By
JIRARA
© JIRARA, July 2020
Published by JIRARA
On matrubharti.com
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Humanity’s Journey
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A Journey
The train halted at the station,
people rushed in and out of the bogies,
unconcerned of each other-either way,
unconcerned of sick, old, even the pregnant ladies!
Bus is cancelled, the trains are late,
the taxis are costly,
the rickshaws are full,
pedals are prohibited,
still people travel and move uncontrollably.
People are dynamic for attending their jobs,
visiting sick in hospitals, the religious rituals,
for social reasons, personal matters,
for settling claims, paying the bills, attending schools.
Facing delays, traffic jams, heat,
the active and bold move all over,
braving rains and accidents,
the lazy and timid remain static where they are.
A half-naked begging boy sweeps,
the floor of the compartment,
asks for something and you offer,
a chunk of the food you are eating,
he smells it and throws away there and there only.
You feel insulted and wonder why he behaved thus,
what an ego while he is so hungry,
that too being a beggar,
you feel jolted,
try to curse him less realizing that,
that ego or an act of showing-off,
or display of superiority
is his only pride for his survival.
For he does not know who or where are his parents,
he is over-beaten by,
the harsh realities of the begging life,
does not have any shelter except,
a footpath or corner of the railway platform.
Has not taken bath for weeks,
and the face is black with soot
he is a skeleton in full.
Decades after the Independence,
the poverty is still not gotten rid of
- for millions are still underfed like him.
The train halts at the next station,
the influx-out flux of passengers repeats,
with the same jostling,
coolies yelling for carrying luggage,
and running fast on the platforms,
the passengers yelling on their mobiles.
Some rushing to the bus stations, taxi stands,
some to airport or their cars,
the hectic life that does not like to halt.
The train again moves whistling,
with begging sounds and esteemed passengers!
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Humanity’s Journey
Some say we were sleeping for millions of years,
the humanity has been sleeping for all these years!
I see myself on this planet rotating and revolving with it,
and whirling around the giant Sun and with it further into,
the vast galaxy and where not,
I went in my un-wakeful state,
and even in the wakeful consciousness, I would not know,
into the formidable space for all these years!
I am scarred when I travelled so much and so far into,
awesome Cosmos and I am still where I was earlier,
pulled by the centre of gravity of the planet,
keeping me steady and not being thrown away,
so that I can breathe and live,
breathe for what and live for whom?
to live I need oxygen and ‘eat’ cells,
from plants and animals for energy,
for my own survival,
as such plants and animals are not waiting to be eaten,
they do not know we are eating them and why,
they do not know why they are here either,
do we know why we are here?
We call ourselves as higher species than them,
what higher, how higher, we are only because of them,
for all their cells are ‘cooking’ in our stomachs,
and working in our blood and ‘thinking’ in our brains,
so that we can call ourselves more intelligent and brainy!
and we call ourselves higher species!
We kill animals for our selfish interests, for fur and ivory,
we oppress and torture our own fellow humans,
we cheat, loot them and kill them,
burn them in gas chambers,
or throw them in stinking prison cells for ever,
and we call ourselves higher species!
We kill innocent people mercilessly and chillingly,
in the name of the ‘God’, and I wonder,
if the same ‘God’ approves this act of ours!
and I also wonder why S/he remains silent,
on innocent people being killed by force and tyranny!
Though there is real abundance of foods on the planet,
yet millions go hungry every day,
live without medications and sanitations,
for our decisions and rules are contrived,
our religions offer heavens to them but they live in hell,
deprived of privileges and rights,
they live in mental blocks and bondages,
without proper and adequate literacy.
We offer them promises and programs,
spend millions of money on,
technology developments and war machines,
and we want to conquer the world,
for whom and why and what for?
we do not really know - we are lost in illusion,
we do not know where do we want to go,
with all this progress when our own,
kinds are still deprived of smiles
on their faces and real joy!
***An end…***with a new beginning…***
