So what makes you better than me?

Is it your colour, your height, your country, your job

You think you are different from the mob?

Is it your university, your college, your finishing school

You really think you are a lesser fool?

Is it your gender, your status, your law, your moral code

You think you came out from the Mother Lode?

So what makes you better than me?

Is it age or marriage or kids, or money and fame

Or something as lame as the surname you pick

You really think you cannot fall sick?

So what makes you better than me?

Is it the piece of land you own or the phone that you hold in your hand

The fact that you have two large silicone breasts

That makes you think, you’re above the rest?

You go to work, you lose your wallet, you beat your wife

You think you lead a better life?

You piss on the wall, you curse at men, you spit out your phlegm

And really think you are better than them?

So what makes you better than me?

Is it your art, your culture, your grand architecture

Is it your choice of music, language or literature

You really think you are the cat’s whiskers?

Is it your gods, your goons, your influential friends

Or something pathetic like fashion trends?

Is it your power, your bombs, your technology

You think your cells have superior biology?

So what makes you better, really?!

You think you are more human than me?

Priya Ganapathy is a media/entertainment personality with a career spanning print, radio, TV, film, internet and theatre. A widely published writer, she has contributed to books, articles and columns in leading newspapers and magazines. Popular as the RJ who created the iconic radio characters, Lingo Leela and Sister Stella, Priya now works as an independent writer, anchor and voice-artiste.