Why can't I be -
What I want to be?
Why can't I become -
What I desire to become!

Who am I?
The mad person - with justifiable rage?
The wanderer -
Abandoning ill-will,
In order to ponder?

A mad person.
The wanderer.
I am poor in understanding -
What have I become?

The miserable land of humans,
With ragged gossip, cold deceit -
Belittles my privacy.
Between the strong and weak

Why can't I be -
What I want to be?
Why can't I become -
What I desire to become!

Dubai
22nd December 2013

Geeta Chhabra