Nothing

A lot of problems

Are centred around

‘Nothing.’

That word is so heavy

It burdens my heart!

You may wonder why...

Yes, there are reasons.

It is

When someone is meant to do

Something for you

And doesn’t

It is nothing

But it hurts!

Like a child

Born and living

Rejected by her parents

Who were meant

To love her

And didn’t.

They did nothing

And so

That child carries

A burden in her heart

For life – ‘unwanted.’

Like a woman

Treated as a nothing

Used like a plaything

Abused like a beating bag

Yet going on living

As though

Nothing happened.

Everybody pretends

It was nothing!

In all the crimes

Committed in the world

It is never mentioned

The crime of doing

Nothing

When you could have

And should have

Done something

Which would have made

A world of difference

To someone.

Nothing is a dirty word,

It hides a lot of crimes,

Hurt, shame,

Anger, injustice

And the worst of all

It parades around

Wearing an invisible garb

And shrugs off every responsibility

As nothing.

-         -  Henrietta Decruz