What’s The Fault Of The New-born?

What was the fault of the just born in the packet?

Why had he to be born even?

Just to lose his precious life?

How can one be so cruel?

Wasn’t there a single soul around to protect this infant?

What were they doing for the full nine months?

Waiting for it to be born just to dispose it off?

They could have given him to an orphanage….

Or mother Theresa’s home or church or someone….

Oh! why did this happen? Why? Why? Why?

Who will answer this question?

Is there an answer to it?

My house help told me in the morning today,

That yesterday she saw a babe in a plastic cover,

Thrown along with the trash in the dustbin on the roadside,

Many people were around seeing it and then picked it up,

To inform the police or someone concerned……,

Tears rolled down my eyes just listening to her,

Even now I can’t come to terms with the mishap,

Why did it happen this way?

Wasn’t there a single soul to have saved the infant?

Before the inevitable happened,

What’s the use of seeing it now?

After the infant had breathed its last?

She told me it was a fine fair baby boy,

So cute was he with tiny feet and hands,

He looked so good even though not alive,

How did they have the heart to dump this lovely child?

There are so many thousands yearning to have a child,

To have one, they constantly keep trying in many different ways,

Till finally they are blessed with one, they feel complete,

As though the sole purpose of their lives was to have a child,

How unfortunate for this baby boy, too unlucky was he,

To be dumped like this unceremoniously,

May his soul rest in peace and soon be born again,

In a healthy happy household with doting parents!