Chasing the horizon

 

Are we all aware that we'd die?
Nah, the education teaches
us to forget death. The addiction
to neglect the inevitable has
seeped through the nerves, over
generations, through nexus,
slowly taking the global
situations from bad to worse.

Despite losing lives every
now and then, we don’t talk
about the unwritten taboo,
that my time will also come.

Schools, across the world
had never included it in
the curriculum; we have
sex education, not death
education. Moral science, 
although not included in the
mainstream was at least
present even a decade ago,
but now, it had been shown
the door.

Adolescent violence, loaded
guns with due license,
rubbers, condoms have invaded
the innocuous schoolbags
that once carried books,
tiffin boxes, at times, goodies
for celebrating birthdays.

Meaningful, engaging effort
from parents, leaders, educators,
with a promise to gift the children
their least deserved innocence
seems like chasing the horizon.