ONCE AGAIN MY HEAD BOWS DOWN IN SHAME

Oh!  once again my head bows down in shame,
Eyes shudder to open to horrendous barbaric strains,
Ears plead to deafen out those agonizing wails,
Is that humanity being snuffed out by the humanity gone astray.

Why was I not born a bird or an animal tame,
Why not an unselfish flower or a river untame,
Why couldn't my being help enlighten lives,
Why couldn't my kind enthuse joy in place of cries,

How could fathers, brothers, sons be perpetrators of such heinous
barbarism,
Killers, murderers, looters ,plunderers, maligning all that was
humanism,
Torching, maiming ,killing, deriving sadistic pleasures from
Satanism,
Followers of God's chosen path, calling themselves Hindus and
Muslims,

Forgetting they are the Lord's  best creation indulge in all that
is bestial,
Oh! to be a bird or an animal tame......

Once again my head bows down in shame.......

~Sonali SC~