Like You Stare

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at the women
Breastfeeding their children.

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at the women
Walking the streets after nightfall.

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at the girls
Who talk to their friends by the road.

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at the transgenders
When they are anywhere near your eye-shot or earshot.

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at the boy
Who is crying his heart out.

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at the men
Who holds a woman’s purse outside the loo.

Don’t stare at it too long
Like you stare at everything that
Fails to fit your understanding perfectly.

Cause if you stare at it too long
Like you do at all others,
This too will start to grow on you.
And like others, this too shall remain unaffected.