Humans Like Us

People should be treated First as humans Before anything else. I take you as you are But first as human. For we were first humans Before we became all-what-not That we have become today. So I would be glad To be treated first As human before anything else. As human I enter with my wife Into my room at night And after our natural duties, We gossip over many things. We laugh about many funny things That were said and done During the day by our neighbours And friends and all. We mimic them funnily When we are out of gossips, She tells me to hush While she places her ear Quietly on the wall to hear What our neighbours were doing And she removes it abruptly Again in shock Not believing her ears. Hush… Hush She signals me to put my ear To the wall. When I did, I heard my neighbours Mimicking us; gossiping us. So on a rainy Sunday All dressed up in white, We are going to church. And we greet you loudly From across the road. As if to show our White apparels to you. Then a speeding automobile From the blues splashes Mud-water all over us. Inside you laugh In spite of your outward “Sorry o sorry!” And in the morning of the next day, Like the humans we are, We yet exchange warm greetings The neighbours, you and us.