Human Being

I'm a Human Being 

I cry.

I also get hurt.

I can also feel—

because I am a human being.

heart is not made of stone,

tears are not weakness,

my silence is not emptiness.

I feel pain deeply,

even when I don’t show it.

I carry wounds

that words cannot explain.

I try to fly 

Even when you cutoff my wings

I still hope—

and that itself

proves my humanity.

So don’t ask me

to be strong all the time.

let me heal—

I'm still alive

because I am human.

Rashmi Pawar

7/7/2017