The Indigenous Humanity Poem by Jameel Ahmed Ansari

We are proud to be humans,
We boast of our unique intelligence,
We commit the most unusual crimes,
Yet we say we are humans.

We are glad to be humans,
HE has blessed us the magical brain.
We use it in the worst possible way.
We still say we are humans.

We feel honored to be born as human.
HE has provided us with the liveliest of hearts,
We kill innocent animals mercilessly.
Not for a second we pause before saying ourselves humans.

We are very liberal to claim ourselves as human.
We feel the least of shame in commenting lewd on girls,
We forget our sisters back home while eve teasing,
Yet we consider ourselves as humans.

We feel privileged to be called humans,
We are the best among the living beings,
We kill our fellow human beings in the most inhuman way.
Yet we call ourselves human.

We commit the goriest crimes,
We slaughter and butcher we throttle and slit,
We stab and fire we crush and blast,
And what not we do just to kill human.
We don’t know what humanity is,
Yet we proclaim ourselves to be human.

We take the advantage of being human,
We kill a flying bird with ease,
We shoot a sleeping deer secretly,
We confidently say ourselves human.

We are the best living species till date.
We dare to exhibit the worst characteristics at times.
Rape and murder have been humans’ worst deeds
All these have totally maligned the human image.

The word humanity now feels ashamed.
It feels insecure in the human heart.
Humanity has got a pathetic change
It has got no option but to leave the Human heart

I still believe it’s not the end
There’s still some humanity left within
There are lots who protect humanity and die for it
I still believe we can prove ourselves HUMANE



Nb: “We” refers to a particular section of human beings