At The Same Time Poem by Arvind Srivastava

A young man is thinking
This is a very bad time for the earth and its inhabitants

A woman
Wants to jump from the roof in front
An old man crying in the neighborhood
Is praying to God to take him away

A girl has just been kidnapped
A boy has just been crushed by a truck
An old woman is mumbling on the roadside
‘This world is no longer worth living in'

At the same time
A child in the hospital
Breaking all the bonds of the womb
With all his might
Wants to come to the earth!

©Arvind Srivastava,
INDIA