OF IRONY AND DECEPTION

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You can’t understand my feelings

Whatever I say,

You would get me wrong!

It is not just you

But almost everyone around me,

It’s all just the same,

A world of irony and deception!

When I express my feelings,

You call me mad,

When I don’t, you

Call it sheer indifference!

When I complain about these both,

You label it as ‘extremities’!

As a child, I had

Always wanted to grow up,

Now, that I’m grown up,

I just want to be a child again,

What a world of irony is this!

The world around me

Wants me to be subtle and passive,

Close my eyes against

Almost everything and just move on!

But I want to tell everyone out there,

My blood is not cold,

My heart is not frozen

It throbs, it aches and

My blood pound fierce

And the tongues of the society say

You are that ‘perverse’ one!

I want to raise my voice, but

Oh Alas! I lost it somewhere,

In the middle of ‘growing up’

And that is how the world deceived me!

This world has looted me of

The cause of my existence,

My bunch of feelings and

Everything that I called my own,

And that, a sweet label of

‘sacrifice’ stamped upon it,

But why, I don’t know!

And when time passes by,

Somebody would place a rose on my grave

And would just say,

“Poor girl! She ‘sacrificed’ everything,

For the cause of nothing!”