Contrast

Contrast

Often a time comes,

Pleading my brain “emphasis difference”.

Differences between me and my each reference.

Each time I pleaded my superiority ‘Favour’,

It snubbed me , Bringing in clouds of Self-dejection.

Low did I feel and so did my soul.

Agony surrounded my self-assumed attire of invincibility.

Cursed I my life , Complained for loneliness.

Self-made standards knocked my aspirations down.

Shattering hopes each time.

Competitors’ success attenuated it further.

Unending luxury and standard was what I craved for.

Then dawned the light of contrast,

That showed me how infants begged.

Journey by train unraveled,

How sweeping could be done,

Sans legs sans expectation to be paid.

Tears oozed out for a condition so illegitimate.

Eyes never dried, Coz,

Sights and thought as these describe,

How could dumb explain feeling sans hands,

Yet life continues.

Ever could I feel what a footpath sleeper does??

Waiting for death yet surviving.

Olden days over Alms is unthinkable for me,

What do they feel who have no other options?

Slight cut at body part induces weeping rivers

How do they stand sans legs, sans body parts.??

Parents rebuke annoys,

Not to those sans them.

Luxury is a choice,

Not for those sans it.

“Can their pain be justified?” I asked my brain.

No answer did I get.

My Heart exclaimed” Worth not comparing”.

Soul still interrogates, “Does comparison really worth?”

I find myself sans answer.

Written By :

Pranav Kumar ‘Pathak’