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Till when will you remain silent?
Speak up, Speak loud and Speak now!
You get asked for coffee, sometimes dinner and often dates
You say ‘No’, you subtly show the ring
But they won’t listen, they won’t care — they’d still ask;
“Can we at least be ‘friends’?”
Till when will you remain silent?
You get ignored, your arguments not valued,
They say you don’t have much skin in the game
Oh, Kiddo!, You are just an apprentice!
They think they are the stalwarts,
They have seen it all and they know it all
Only if their thoughts weren’t so shallow, their values so hollow,
let’s be real — who is the real novice and who the wise, after all!
Your ideas get dismissed no matter how fresh, offbeat or creative,
no doubt they use the same old lens, the same old narrative!
Till when will you remain silent?
Your work gets taken away, tossed and turned, twisted and churned
presented to some old, some new, some fools and some ‘Who are you?’
