Wishing a better world
I would still like to believe in a world
where people won’t break down
fragile hearts and step on glass castles of dreams,
where people wearing heart on sleeves
would be an ordinary phenomenon,
where women will actually be respected
and appreciated more than just in poems and quotes,
where gays and lesbians will be more human
than just being sexually different,
where we will blush through a same-sex couple
as we do to others, a world where
we still enjoy walking through parks holding our
grandparents’ hands and listen to their bed
stories instead of throwing them out on roads.
I would still like to believe in a world where
men won’t be called weak for being cry
babies and showing all their vulnerabilities
for isn’t it all normal if you’re hurt and you
cry and necessarily not be a woman to
do that? for we often associate crying with
a woman calling it cowardly because it just
makes a man less of one, does it? and tell me
why on earth, I still crave for “happily ever afters”,
is that even possible in a world where
hearts are more fragile than butterfly wings
and people just get done and dusted with love
over messages, not heeded to even explain.
I would still like to believe in a world where
we needn’t sham down genders or people
for that matter, where women will not be
condemned to live against her wish where
letting her get married late and access to
education will not be called privileges in
a society that otherwise marries off a girl
at 18 because that is her right and rightly so,
where feminism will mean both equity and
equality, where men won’t be asked to pass
a seat to women because they can have a bad day
and tired too, where a transgender won’t be
looked upon with disgust and hate of not being
the same as us, but more beautiful by hearts.
I would still like to believe in a world where
it will be as normal giving birth to a third
gender baby as it is to any other and that
society wouldn’t ask any parents to let go
of their babies being born different.
And isn’t being different is all about being
unique in their own ways? for how I wish
things to get a little less complex than we
actually make out of it, for I wish only rainbows
had colors and not the humans for which
they seek to demean and kill, for I am a sucker
for a sphere where there live just the religions of
“humanity” and “love” and gods just look better
inside temples, churches, and mosques
otherwise brings havoc to civilizations.
I would still like to believe in a world where
a girl isn’t called a slut for being big breasted
and shame for flat-chested, where a woman
is as human as a man and not a commodity
to bid on, where men will be told to change
perspectives than asking women to wear more
clothes, where honors killings won’t be as normal
because your honor shouldn’t lie in
a girl’s vagina, don’t call her sacred at daylight
and rape the hell out of her at night, for this time
just a little respect won’t do, we bloody
want our equal rights.
I would still like to believe in a world where
a girl following her passion, or a boy just marrying
off against the family, or just a
child choosing his own dreams, or love
a same-sex person will all be okay to a
a society that follows a rule book for every
another thing on this earth, for we are still
running short on people who admire,
encourages, enlightens and drags people
out of glooms and be told it is fine; fine
being a rebel, being different, wanting to
live on their own terms.
I would still like to believe in a world where
smiles can light up one’s whole wide world,
where books will make people fall in love
all over again just as it did before the
advancements of the mechanical world,
where butterflies on the stomach will make a
a better person, where hope prevails to let
a person live a little longer than he/she is
meant to, where being able to trust someone
will be as easy as a-b-c and we needn’t be
blaming one other of betrayals because
there won’t be any.
– Bhargobi Talukdar
Poet
Email @ angelmaina40@gmail.com
4 Comments
Words are so beautiful… Really we can seek changes by poems, stories, songs…
Very beautiful..
Mridu
Thank You
It’s really amazing and alarming :))
Thank you …