FADING AWAY

When I see someone doing terror work,
Giving humanity a backward jerk,
Going wrong, going astray ,
I ask myself, is ‘it’ fading away? 

When I see a helpless starving man,
Nobody helping him, when everyone can,
People starving and dying every day,
I ask myself, is ‘it’ fading away?

When I see for wrong people going insane,
Millions of philosophies going in vain,
‘Perhaps it’s a hell’ to myself I say,
And ask again, is ‘it’ fading away?

But the question is, what is ‘it’,
Just pause for  a minute, stop and sit,
Come out of the worldly insanity,
So that you realize, ‘it’ is Humanity.

Humanity, that is utterly lost,
Humanity, that has to come back at any cost,
Humanity, that is locked in a dark room, 
Humanity, that once again has to bloom.

Well, we have to strive hard,
To bring back humanity one day,
So that no one questions himself,
Is ‘it’ fading away? 

                    -Nikesh  Lilani