Life Poetry: You Will Never Know
You Will Never Know
You see images from a distance.
You think and feel hurt about it
and you wonder why.
Maybe because you feel pity
or maybe you disagree
To someone’s way.
But you are not here as we are here
living life dangerously
by real fear and real pain.
How you feel hurt is not enough
compared to how we die daily.
It cannot be said in words.
We are run out of tears.
We are run out of hopes.
We feel we are already dead.
You really don’t know our misery
and
will never know
until you come and live with us.
Compassion is not just feeling
or
some free lip service on a podium
but it’s about demonstration and action.
Come and stand beside us
in the midst of this raging war
than you will know this life we live.
Can you? If you can’t,
what are you feeling about?
Nothing!
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August 24th, 2007 at 7:31 am
[...] You will never know is free verse poem I wrote some years ago dedicated to all those who are suffering in the war torn countries. The very first verse shows clearly what most of us do in our real life. We watch them on our television set through news and feel pity for them. The question I raise in the poem is if we can understand their sufferings. Do we really understand them? [...]