Human Being

Human Being

by Rashmi Pawar

I cry,

I also get hurt,

I can also feel—

because I am a human being.

My heart is not made of stone,

my tears are not weakness.

Silence does not mean

the absence of pain.

I try,

I fly with broken wings,

yet I rise again—

and still, I am alive,

because I am a human being.

Rashmi Pawar

7/7/2017