"Me"

With changing times and lifestyles, the world is increasingly becoming self-centric. In some ways, this egocentric attitude forms the root of mental amd emotional desertification that society faces today. But we fail to recognize this truth as we are too busy nitpicking our problems, concentrating all our energies around our little world, limiting the already limited notion of world we are presented today, thus creating anxieties and some unsolvable problems....which sometimes are a progeny of our own overthinking.

A thousand tiny prison cells,
Where morbid souls dwell,
Each mourning their own fate
Blistering with rage and hate.
Oblivious of others' being,
Deafened by their own screams.
Where darkness consumes
Each ray of hope.
Breathless humanity,
Strangled with rope.

We search for the culprits,
Alas! Its we,
We locked ourselves up,
And we hold the key,
The key to decimate within us,
The brazen concept of "me".

©Aishwarya