(In response to "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling)

Reading the poem, “The White Man’s Burden,”
has displayed how humanity back then
had gone for a burton.

...The sensitivity of mankind is hard to ascertain.
This crude presentation
of both - colonialism & racism
is so hard for me to even harken!

This poem that he wrote
for his men to hearten
has left me all
but completely disheartened.

The luminance of Kipling
suddenly seems all darkened.
Or is it that I didn’t
quite get his jargon??

Such a viewpoint
of any person
would be so hard for me to pardon
...coz this outlook
sure needs to be sharpened.