Few Care, And That's Not Enough

" We are a society that only cares about the hungry when they are voters and only cares about the naked when they are women."

~Ahmed Negm

We all, call ourselves a society, don’t care much

Contemn change, adore status quo in all its entirety

Feeble feeling ‘care’ is, not an overwhelming one as such

So easily buried, forgotten, easily observed but ignored

We grieve, can do anything for rejoice and reprieve

Only for ones we know and love, or being loved.

Indifference is well fed to us, we ain’t neutral by chance

When have our eyes reflected back the reality in entirety?

It does when something gross or gruesome dances

Rest all to be seen is left for somewhile perchances

We live in an unseen bubble where all’s fine and good

Unaware of all which can render us weltered in glances.

Look for it, where that care, empathic heart has gone?

Lock it when you find it, before it has for forever gone.

Become Like Water

Changes are like water, they drip and drop

In so many shapes and so many forms..

Changes, unnoticed changes

Gradual, not rapid but slow

I never really knew

When and how they seeped

Deep In to my skin

Methinks, I see mirror everyday

Hardly any change

Reflects back in my eyes

But I'm changed

In more ways than I can say

When it happened?

Many times walls in my room

Painted, repainted

Skyscrapers looming around my space

Built from nothing

Mighty tree next door dropped

Heaps of leaves

I've never seen them die out

Always on time

Unheeded, they come and go

When it all happens?

I guess I fail to notice

I wish to become like water

When changes being darted

Along my way

What's in it to notice?

To get it over with

 Swiftly adapt.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.
~Bruce Lee