Mehak Gupta

Is being born in love a privilege?

Is having a roof on my head and a security guard on my gate a privilege?

So, you are saying that the acid tears of the girl whose lover took revenge is underprivileged?

So, you are saying that the teenager who was dragged naked on the streets, cameras blaring on her body, men and their million mannequin penises teasing her dignity is underprivileged?

Should I ask Maslow if I have it easy?

He would say I am at the top of his pyramid where the floors are made of glass and if I look down – like water that is leaking from the ceilings of my palace – I will spill down

Right at the bottom

Do I have it easy, should I feel guilty?

Is this even a question of privilege?

We are divided by invisible boundaries dictating the sequenced polarization of rich versus poor, right versus wrong

Can’t we see suffering as it is

Not more not less

In the loud battle of reasons voices that need listening dissipate into a whisper

Wait

Listen

A human being

is trying to speak