Dazzling roads and Food for the bellies

Oh dazzling roads there-

The rich need for their shining cars!

Avaricious  to add more cars to their fleet

Their  greed yearns for more and more of money

With no limits to pile up

Greed breeds greed, greed grows greed

Oh there the food in the boiling pots-

The poor people yearn for  their starved bellies L

Their hunger knows not the taste

Or the hunger makes the food to taste like elixir

Hunger takes all - good, not so good and bad food

Depending on the level  of hunger

One towering empire is the rich’s wish

one well looked after belly is all the poor want

add some clothes to conceal their body

have some place to rest in the night

Rich one’s pets eat and enjoy more than

What the poor earn in their entire lives

Rich are  mountains

Poor are  deep valleys

Rich are sprawling palaces

Poor are tiny huts

Are the rich happy and poor unhappy?

Rich may not be happy

But the poor may be happy

Richness does not guarantee happiness

Poorness does not rule out happiness

It is difficult to climb the hills

But easy to roll down the slopes

Rich may become poor

Wealth is not forever and

not going with them when they leave their stay on Earth

Then why not the rich set aside

A portion to their poor brethren

Tend to them , feed them , upbring them?

They will sure get happiness

If only they see the smiling faces of the poor

Let there be dazzling roads

Forget not the bellies of the downtrodden

Let mountain paths lead to valleys

Letting the valleys get their share too

-Mohan Sanjeevan