Today's News Poem by Arti Chopra

Today's news
A woman
Trying to commit suicide
Take her own precious life
In the busy streets of Calcutta

People passed by
Intent on their mission
Not a glance spared
Not a sigh
No protest
No asking why?

She hung herself
On a lamppost
Her life
Squeezed out
Not a glance
not a shout
No stopping her
From without

She hung there dead,
Her life wiped out
Hanging by the lamppost
And still people passed by


This is the world today
Not a kindly ray
From the blackened sun
That shines
On our world
so far away


Is this humanity?
Is this our world today?
I Weep.....
As I read
Today's news....