Numbers. They were used to quantify.
10 deaths, 50 deaths, 116 deaths. Now they all mean the same.
They all mean nothing.
Numbers. When did they lose their ability to quantify?
Peace. It used to be the status quo.
Rockets, Missiles, Rebels, Terrorists. Now they define the norm.
The day is now incomplete without a tempest wrecking peace.
Peace. When did we let go of it?
Sympathy and Empathy. They led the world to help to heal the hurt.
Mutilation, Rape, Explosions, Child Soldiers. The wounds only get deeper and deeper.
There is no medicine available to blanket the festering pain.
Sympathy and Empathy. When did they decide that we were too damaged to heal?
Love. It used to make the world go around.
Indifference, Ignorance, Hatred. Now the world has stopped in a cold cavern.
The wheels have stopped moving and the quicksand of desolation is sinking fast.
Love. When did we lose the audacity to revel in it?
~Rishika Sudhir Dhody
