They too are human
I may sound like a hypocrite, but really, do they?Is not the very window of your car, with its lavish tints, a barb-wired border fence?
Is the the air between you filled with tension and disgust and remorseful thoughts?
Does not the very sight of them make you restless and vexed?
Why do they deserve this?
Don't they too deserve something better?
Something more with compassion? Perhaps a reply?
They are humans, like us, fellow humans, and what makes us better than them? Why such ignorance? Why such lack of compassion? Why such....disgust?
Is it like a window in between makes you greater? Is it the status symbol? Is it the ambi pur air we breathe and the polluted air they breathe? Is it like our friends can't wait for a second?
Does it not hurt, to be ignored, to not be recognised as alive and present? Well, how must they feel, to see the same thing at every tinted window frame they knock at, at every bike they go to, at every auto they stand by?
They are fellow human beings, if not acquaintances or relatives. We share the same feelings even if we're richer. So next time, if not a rupee, let's atleast look at them, smile or show the gleam of recognition through our eyes and give our answer.
There will start peace and breaking of barricades and barriers.
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