The World is Different

The world is different from what it seems,

People are different from what they seem.

Why is there a lie in place of truth?

Why is there arrogance in place of love?

Why are there differences in place of friendship?

Fake and false things flourish,

Truth withers and dies.

But I ask aloud:

Why is this world so mean?

Is it a lie that I live?

Or is the truth dead?

Hurt and shattered I lie here,

In hope, to get an answer.

Your lie makes me cry hard,

Your truth makes me laugh,

Because both are fake.

I try to think the last time you spoke the truth,

But I found that never has such a thing occurred.

Heart cries for the falsity you performed,

It is shattered at the things you said.

Never do the same to some one else,

For people will forget to trust their friends.

Kriti Ranjan,
Class XII (Commerce),
St Joseph’s Convent High School, Patna