Suffering
What is it ?
Suffering is physical. Suffering is emotional. Suffering is prophetic. Suffering is in the cradle. Suffering is in the grave. Suffering is in ecstasy. Suffering is in plight.
Life is tough.
Easy for few, tough for many. Mother bearing the labor. Child wailing in hunger. Father tilling the land. Labor lifting the load. Soldier shivering in winter.
Suffering is when Jesus was allegedly on the cross, pharaoh followed Moses & when Mohammed wandered in the alleys of Mecca ( May peace be on all of them). Suffering is in sickness. It is in disease, hunger & thirst. Suffering is in love & loneliness.
There is war, there is terrorism, there is war on terrorism. Suffering is when Iraq’s bombed, Rohingyas mascaraed, Kashmiris blinded, Syrians sink in boats, Uiyghars brainwashed, villages burned, houses ransacked, libraries pillaged, canisters thrown, bullets fired. Suffering is when there’s smell of burnt flesh, blood splattered on the walls & the ceiling, when children cry for help.
Suffering is when a Philipina sold, a Latina scolded, a girl kidnapped, a woman raped, a man raped & a child raped.
When clothes are shredded, naked bodies charred & girls mutilated you know it’s suffering.
Suffering is when black is called a nigger, a muslim mlechh or a kalar & the rest kafir.
Suffering is when humanity loses compassion. Emotions are cold & blood too hot. When gun is power. Silence is weakness. When love is lust. Greed is pride.
Suffering is here. It’s real. It’s temporal.
Suffering is Human.
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