Poverty is the
utmost cruelty
Inflicted on
the hapless victims
War, famine, downturn
in economy or what not
Already
dealt blows on them
Felling them into
poverty
Do they have
enough tears to shed
To show their
pain and anguish?
Finding no
food to eat
Hunger eats
them!
Sucking their blood
melting and
crushing their flesh and bones
reducing them to
very skeletons
where a body
is supposed to be in place
their shedding
tears will only aid the hunger to feast on
the skeletons
shamelessly
What one has
to do?
Rendering
eloquent speeches,
writing
scholarly articles, taking heart-rending photos
on poverty are
all more cruel than the cruelest poverty itself
Brothers and
sisters! shed your tears for them a while
yet stop not with
it for they need your help and action
in cash, kind
and labor
to make them
meet the square meals in the day
each day and
every day
They were
created just like you and me
To lead the lives
like any others
Not to be on the run and look out
For quenching fire in their bellies
As living
tales of misery
Show once you
are human beings with hearts
To show the
compassion and lift our fellow beings
Lovers are
ready to buy diamonds
build golden
castles for their love
no diamond, no
castles needed but put away that little
to make them
eat , clothed and sheltered
Stop not with feeding,clothing,
sheltering
Make them
stand on their own
With
livelihood to take care of themselves
And feel as
beings born to live and lead
a normal life
just like you and me and all
Come on let us
do it , let poverty be tamed
Hunger be
eaten as the poor eat happily!
-Mohan
Sanjeevan
