Listen to everyone's pain.
Comfort and love them.

I want my turn.
I want to be taken care of.
Am I not worthy?

My strength is waning.
I'm so tired.
Waking from seizures, wishing I didn't have to.
Crying now, useless tears stream down my cheeks.
I squirrel myself away.

Cook, clean and care for others.
Watching them flourish and enjoy.
Mother to the world.
No joy of my own

Amma remembers your smiling face.
Dad only sees the young boy you once were.
Me....I see the brother I love.

I don't know how I'll get through a week without your hello.
You were my dialysis.

Selfishly helping you made me feel better, stronger, useful.

I wish you hadn't gone.
I'm not ready to accept it.
I've raged at god, at fate and the unfairness that is life.

It makes no difference, you're gone.

Playing with your toys
Enjoying your games
Laughing loudly with joy

Move your pieces around your board.
Grin at the consequence of every roll of the dice.

You make the rules.
You have no restraints.

Epidemics, Earthquakes and Hurricanes.
Your fingers on the strings of the marionette that is man.
Poverty, ethnic cleansing, maniacal leaders.

And let us not forget your maniacal followers who blow themselves up in your name.

Playing with your toys
we exist for your amusement.

I read your poems
I twist in jealousy.
Some of you know yourselves better
Some of you are sadder
Some are angrier
Few are happier

I want to experience your deeper knowledge.
I want to have your deeper understanding.

My walls are impenetrable.
My exclusion is self inflicted.
I'll never have your freedom, I'll never allow myself the pleasure.
I'm a *****, a recluse.
I live in a tower of isolation.

Penniless and needy
My pride swallows me as I sit on my throne of superiority.

Thoroughly foolish
Rudely idiotic
Utterly stupid
Mean self-absorption
Pompous arrogance

Hinduism calls our times the 'Demon Age'
Are you the proof?