Jack and Jill went up to school <br />When teacher asks questions <br />Jack listens and answers well <br />Jill shrinks into inferiority cell <br /> <br />Lack of knowledge causes pain <br />As a plant withers without rain <br />Child too droops down within <br />If it can’t understand something <br /> <br />A sensitive teacher would find <br />The difficulty piercing kid’s mind <br />Extra troubles she would undergo <br />Ignorance the child would let go <br /> <br />I too know not many things <br />Ignorance ties down my wings <br />Who would help me in life? <br />How would I come out this strife? <br /> <br />The cause of universe I know not <br />The cause of my life I know not <br />The karma cycle I don’t understand <br />This unawareness I can’t withstand <br /> <br />Why am I in this monstrous society? <br />Looking at Brahmins get inferiority <br />Looking at Sutras get superiority <br />Why am I a tiny in cosmic variety? <br /> <br />Beyond five senses I know not <br />Limit of blue sky I know not <br />Is there any one who knows all? <br />Who can break my prison small? <br /> <br />Finding for me, it is utter waste <br />To explore the universe vast <br />If I turn my search inside <br />There stands ego blocking my ride! <br /> <br />Still I know not my mind’s depth <br />Time cuts down life’s length <br />It hurts me a lot to realize <br />I know not even ‘I’ very close!<br /><br />Raman Savithiri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/699-it-hurts-me-a-lot-240909/
