By Atul Pandita
Hello Sir!
Remember me?
Yes... No??
Well, I do indeed know you...
but you don’t know me??
Well... if you would kindly spare
a few minutes of your precious time...
I’ll tell you who I really am.
Don’t worry Sir, I shan’t take much time.
But... where should I start?
I do not know... ahh yes...
I am a human being... just like you,
And like you, I live and breathe...
inside my chest beats a soft and vulnerable heart.
My form is not my choice...
this is something I did not want to be.
Like you Sir, I had dreams... aspirations...
a gazillion things I wanted to do...
and a gazillion places I wanted to see.
However, I do not know how I ended up here...
standing in front of you...
bearing the brunt of both your ire and your ridicule,
Becoming the butt of all your lewd jokes and abuses...
I saw myself being reduced to a mere useless tool.
And then you took off in your rocket ship...
throwing dust in my face...
running away, when that signal turned green,
You quickly let go of that horrendous monster
you had just been.
You forgot that you had just murdered me with your words...
you had killed off my beautiful and tender soul,
You had created inside me...
with your sneering and hate-filled eyes...
an infinite and a dark hole.
Despite all of this, however,
I chose to bless you with His powers,
I asked Him to forgive you...
and bring in your life endless health-filled
and prosperous showers.
I asked Him to take away all your pain...
taking away countless miseries and disappointments,
I hoped and prayed...
that my horrendous face...
may never come in front of you ever again!!
And yet... today, you stand in front of me...
your eyes filled with a little bit of shame
and lots of remorse,
Well... Sir, this is what I call poetic justice...
this is what I call destiny, of course!!!
And Sir, just to let you know...
my name is Tamanna
and yes, I belong to the so-called “Third Gender”.
But that doesn’t change the fact
that, like you, I am a human being...
and just like you,
a heart beats inside me
that is soft and tender.
You may leave now…
as I’ve finished whatever I wanted to say.
Nothing more to add...
nothing more that is left inside me,
I do hope though,
that my words... my voice... be inside of you,
and forever and ever...
they may stay...
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My words... my voice...
be inside of you,
and forever and ever...
they may stay!!