No one is listening to me.
No one is listening to ‘them’.
None of us are listening to anyone.

 

Full of terror, and prayer –
I turn silent.
Full of terror and despair –
I become furious.

 

I want to be heard.
But, no one is listening to me.
‘They’ want to be heard.
You and me, O! Friends,
Lets listen to ‘them’.

 

Why are all my entreaties barren?
Let the scepter of injustice
Be replaced with humanness.

 

No one is listening to me.
No one is listening to ‘them’.
None of us are listening to anyone.

 

 

 Dubai
1st March 2015

 

Geeta Chhabra