Somya Kedia Poet Prose Poetry

What Vs Why

Why is that, do you ever ask?
Why did she surrender, 
Why is he wearing a mask, 
Why is she so emotional, 
Why he is so torn apart, 
Why is he/she in such an awful task?
No, we never ask!

We pass verdicts and judgements: 
“She is characterless, 
Oh him? Such a Casanova!” 
“She is emotional, 
He is so rude!”

“So much for us to take and weigh!”
“He/she is mad, depressed, and obnoxious! 
Such bad! I say!”

Today I ask openly, 
To each one of you! Who are you to say? 
A judge? 
Then why such words at him/her you’d threw?

Punished and penalised; 
Why is he or she to get it from you. 
What has he/she done to you, 
Then why is such a picture of them you drew?

Do we know which extra mile, 
Has that person walked on? 
May be he/she started to struggled
even before it was dawn!

Why is that she surrendered, 
Why is that he is torn apart! 
Simply bother to listen, I say! 
Ask him/her to sing their untold song, 
Why is that he/she comes out so strong?

No, as likely we are, they say; 
living our lives in a selfish world. 
You and I have to deal with our own selfishness, 
Stick with it and die!
Isn’t it? 
That’s the norm to abide by. 
Hence so, we never struggle 
In between What and Why?

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