Reasoning

Breathe in the stench 

Let it fill your lungs

Watch that human make his way 

To the edge of the platform 

To spit on the train tracks 

Feel a drop of water on your skin 

And how it burns 

What we fear are purely academic findings,

can they change the world? 

Look up to the sky 

The light through the cloud cover 

After a monsoon revival 

Are we really at the receiving end 

of the better half 

of a 47% rain deficit

this languishing year?

We’re badmouthing the advocates 

That don’t clean up after themselves 

Scrubbing their bathrooms clean 

We are at the service of 

The harbingers of justice 

Can we learn to delight ourselves in abundance? 

In You?

How do you delight in us

When there’s so much poverty 

Inside of us?

We do not do right by others 

or by You 

in our thoughts 

Can we abandon the ways 

we betray each other 

in our minds? 

Rescue me from 

this addiction to discontentment 

Rescue me from 

feeling limited by equally unideal options

Am I just indecisive? 

Can’t you see how helpless I am?