Asserting a woman is less than a man,
You force her into a marriage so rushed.
Put yourself in her shoes, if you can,
To see how it is for dreams to be crushed.
Steeped in ignorance rooted in the past,
Out of your temple, you keep the Dalit.
Imagine if you too were born an outcaste,
What will such an act do to your spirit?
Unwilling to accept love in all its glory,
You denounce a man that marries another.
What if being gay was part of your story,
Live in denial or die, would you rather?
With an undeserved air of superiority,
You dismiss all those with darker skin.
Wake up and see that it is not charity,
To treat all humans like kith and kin!
To condense all these stories into a line that is pithy,
What makes us human is to have for each other empathy.
