Poetry

1. I COULDN’T BEAR TO SEE
I couldn’t bear to see innocuous children being brutally tormented; orphans being
whipped mercilessly by uncouth society,
I couldn’t bear to see the crystalline sea waters being polluted by tones of barbaric oil;
fishes and the vivacious aquatic life dying as an aftermath,
I couldn’t bear to see burglars dexterously ripping wallets of the impeccable
pedestrians; indiscriminately marauding the historical heritage of the country,
I couldn’t bear to see stray dogs shivering incessantly in chilly currents of wind;
occasionally meeting their ends colliding with swanky cars,
I couldn’t bear to see hysterical wailing of the lunatics; the mental delirium they were
in; for no fault of theirs,
I couldn’t bear to see mangled debris scattered incoherently after the car crash; the
lifeless bodies being extricated from the interiors,
I couldn’t bear to see the old and severely crippled being ridiculed at; the ostentatious
society making a blatant travesty of the blind,
I couldn’t bear to see bedraggled urchins sleeping on the stony ground; while the
handsomely opulent stashed their heads beneath quilts of fur and embroidered satin,
I couldn’t bear to see robust birds soaring merrily in the sky plummeting towards the
soil; as hunters shot pugnacious arrows in their wings,
I couldn’t bear to see irate mobs incinerating people alive; rampant communalism
spreading its deleterious roots far and wide,
I couldn’t bear to see turbulent earthquakes reverberating the city; leading to the
inevitable collapse of high rise buildings,
I couldn’t bear to see arid patches of land with the sun blazing to full tenacity; scores
of people strewn like dilapidated debris; profoundly deprived of cool water,
I couldn’t bear to see children being made to work; slave for inhuman individuals;
who rebuked them worse than animals,
I couldn’t bear to see lush green blades of grass transiting to a pallid brown; clusters
of fruit and leaf withering from the tree,

2. I couldn’t bear to see nuclear missiles decimating blissful townships; the common
man made an unsuspecting victim in the power play of politicians,
I couldn’t bear to see soldiers succumbing to a ghastly death in war; in valiant
attempts to save their motherland,
I couldn’t bear to see the illiterate drinking contaminated water; contracting a
plethora of lethal disease as a manifestation,
I couldn’t bear to see lifeless bodies lying in a heap unattended; with the siblings
portraying nonchalance of spending money to cremate them,
I couldn’t bear to see a single droplet of blood oozing from the body; the slightest of
tribulation and anguish that one could face,
So it is my fervent plea to you O! omnipotent Almighty; to either impregnate in me
the courage to witness sorrow; or besiege me in your magnanimous arms; where I can
view nothing but immortal love.