Cries

Landed on earth with the loudest cry,

Then it turned to the single language

For milk, for sleep, for everything else

All I did was cry aloud.

And then I learnt the crooked world

And as selfish I grew the best way found 

To achieve my goal was cry better.

And then I cried when sent to school

And then again when I left my school.

Then I cried at mother’s warnings

Of a world that seemed more terrible than forests

Though all was true I later realised.

Then I cried when I left my home

To another home by social norm.

And then I cried when his voice rose;

A cry as useless as a white pencil.

Then I cried for another life

To land on earth to repeat the lines.

Then I cried when their voices rose.

(My mother too would have cried; 

Then I never thought)

Then when I had grown enough

Ego to withhold my precious tears,

The heart couldn’t stand and did burst.

In that painful cry I breathed my last.

Now cries have begun

But I hear no more.