What A Time! Poem by Gajanan Mishra

How to bear
And how to tolerate,
With this blood
And flesh!
But how to do
And what to do
We have to earn
Culture and know.

What a time
Dear friends,
We are all one
And no difference
Is there in us
And yet
We are not able to
Stand united.

We are playing
With the flick-knife
Of the time
And yet we are
Careless here.

Where is humanity?
Where is mercy? ?
We are flightless,
Yet, taking flimsy ground
We try to measure
The sky.

We have forgotten
We are the floating bridge
Between the truth
And love,
At times we are
Flattering and
Saying ourselves
Wise, we know, though,
We are not actually so.