Sonnet- The World Is Still Uncivilized

Jumps a woman, in her husband’s pyre! People called it the practice of ‘sati’; When women are doused alive, set afire What is the stage of today’s society? In orgies and arson, the world today, Takes away the lives of more innocents; And emotions high, leads to violence; So treacherous life seems each day, some way. And men are killed in cold-blood in daylight; This world does not seem civilized as yet; Where is our liberty and human rights? Man behaves worse than animals, I bet. Can we remove these evils in some way? Lord, show us in future, a better day