My Neighbour
They say he is of a different religion....
With a different God...
His festivals are different than mine...
He has other scriptures & tenets to follow...
But strange that this may seem...
I found him to be crying with the same colourless tears...
That also fill my eyes...!
His blood was red like mine...
& somewhere inside,I presumed,his heart was alike mine....
He felt the same hunger when deprived of food...
He felt the similar pain when he faced an injury....!
Then why....
Why do we build these artificial boundaries...
That says he is different from me...
Don't we have identical identities....!
Only because he was born in the neighbour's house
That homes another God & religion,
Is he supposed to be my enemy?
Am I supposed to hate him
for some atrocity perpetrated by someone else
Who was also a part of his religion...
In fact, these genuine doubts hover over my head
While I look for the unity in diversity...!
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