This World Is Not Mine Poem by Arun Maji

This world is not mine.

They promised light
But embraced darkness.
So dead dark is the world
Love cannot be seen.

No, I do not belong to them.
If you call them human
I am possibly something else.
It's ok
If you call me a lowly beast,
But darkness is not my world.

I love to cry
When I see hungry child.
I love to shout slogan
When I see wounded woman.
I love to fight
When someone erects wall between you and me.

And now
They want me to see this world being torn into pieces
Yet sing in joy?
O God, forgive me.
I cannot do this.
I cannot.

I must be a stranger to this world
This world is not mine.

© Arun Maji
Painting: Pablo Picasso