What is injustice?
What is discrimination?
I have often wondered
About its nature.
Is it something which can be seen?
Or held or touched?
Or is it not inherently something which is
felt?
Like a bucket of ice poured over the body,
Numbing it for some time, as in Lou
Gehrig’s disease.
After sometime, the numbness slowly goes
away
But the coldness remains.
Then, slowly it starts sinking in
Invariably leaving a bad taste in the
mouth.
Discrimination, however, subtle it may be
It just stands out.
Refusing to die down immediately,
Like a chicken whose head has been
Severed but is still flapping its wing
And is refusing to die without a fight.
Discrimination shines light upon the
personalities
Of both the oppressor and the
oppressed,
Like a looking-glass.
But are the oppressor and the oppressed
Just individuals spread out
somewhere
Randomly in the universe?
As one holy book says
When an individual commits a murder,
It is not a single murder
But the murder of whole humanity
And so, should be injustice and
discrimination
That would be one way of seeking a solution.
I did like it, but seems very political in nature. You have just confused the reader on the question of " what is injustice" or " what is justice". I am not satisfied with this narrative. It feels good like a poem, but nothing to learn on the concept of justice. No insight.
ReplyDeleteIf it is just a poem, then it should not title such a heavy concept as "justice".
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