Who Is Responsible? Poem by Suresh Kumar EK

Why did you fail?
Why are you lazy?
Why don't you study?
Why did you drop out?
Why are you wandering?
Why do you behave crazy?
Why can't you dress properly?
Why are you skinny like a pencil?

Nobody asks such questions,
To any of our marginalized kids.
Nobody realises what they are,
Never say to them we are with you.

Hungry, insulted, pulled out, blinded,
Tired, unwanted, disapproved, disgusted,
Unnoticed, dejected, burned out, depressed,
They live with us, failed, everything denied.

Who made them in equals and partialised?
Who stamped them inefficient and paralysed?
Who changed their life pathetic and disabled?
Who is responsible for neglecting them, unused?
Who kicked them down and threw them into the mud?
Who can be accused of this inequality and denial?
Who is to be sentenced for this unjustice, face a trial? `