Lost Faith / Shattering Faith

By Varun Arora

Rapists are free,

Innocents are in jail...

It takes ages,

To get a simple bail...

Even if you are right,

You need to pay a price…

To prove your innocence,

To win the fight ....

No matter how hard you try, how hard you strive,

Even for a simple bail, you will fail until you pay a huge bribe...

Seeing truth lose every day,

Waiting for justice silently as days pass away....

For days staring at the walls most of the nights awake,

Remembering people's lies, words, and promises fake...

From dusk to dawn,

Twisting and turning, I lay there broken and torn....

Losing a bit of hope every day on not being released and getting the bail,

A mental torture every day that they would release me to central jail....

Shift me to a worse place than where I now dwell,

Which I have heard is just like earth's living hell...

The loss of faith and a rise in fears,

Starting to give sleepless nights and scary nightmares....

With many lost dreams and a shattering faith,

Still acting strong with a broken heart and a smiling face ...

People misusing power sitting at high places up away,

Trying to extort money in some new way every day....

Anger and frustration at bay,

With mind wandering towards revenge for every injustice and lie faced on the way...

Seeing the truth lose In front of lies,

For days and weeks in papers, it silently died...

Every day praying for the headline, Innocent walks free,

By the end gave a disappointment of a different degree .....

When all the good deeds, worship, prayers and truth fail to pay,

When God doesn't step up and intervene to save the day.....

When everything just seems to be a matter of money play,

When only money can prove your innocence and save you at the end of the day....

When you are innocent,

And haven't done anything wrong...

You believed in justice and truth,

And suddenly realize all your life you have been wrong.....

Expecting justice to happen on its own today,

Is like hoping to find a needle in a large pile of hay....

In a time like this when only money proves the truth to be a truth and a lie to be a lie,

The faith in humanity and justice starts to shatter and slowly it dies....

By Varun Arora