RIP Asifa Bano

She is a child to someone.
She is a friend to someone.
She is a sunshine to many.
She is a hope for so many.

(I don't really wish to choose "was" yet.
Coz she isn't "was" yet. To me.
I do not want to believe so. So soon).

She must have not thought that, the calming silence of the Himalayas could also contain the malice of a mutilation.

She must not have thought that, animals that accompanied her are more trustable than the people who did.

She must not have thought that, a world so cruel can exist amidst so much beauty.

She must not have thought that, the human existence can lead to such heinous activity.

And she definitely must not have thought that,
words like Hindu, Muslim could actually contribute to something so horrible.

She left us in an Emptiness.
That's how the world should be cursed.

She is so much more alive in those heavens than she ever was, here.
And we pay the sins in terms of the Emptiness created within Life,
the worst paradox ever.

Somewhere, everyone is responsible.
Somewhere, everyone just dies a little with every one thing like this.

Let us gulp it together.
Let us succumb to some death that it created in us.

#RIPAsifaBano
#ShameWonOnceAgain
#WeAreAshamedOnceAgain
#HumanityLostOnceAgain

WE LOST, AS A RACE.