DISHEVELED

 

DISHEVELED

 

Met on the road future of the country,

Bewildered, a sight that found speechless,

Selling tricolor for a few rupees calling,

May return to someone a pittance help,

A few bread salt as lunch dinner one,

Does not know the child tomorrow can,

Born to parents, never dreamed of arrival,

Natural, grow children, poverty inhibits,

No food for children, medicine while sick,

Buds, disheveled, unwanted vanish, in time,

No tears, cries, pangs of love, surprise,

The world encompasses humans, polished,

Dazzling glass towers limousines in front,

Begs the child ignorant scorns directed,

I was crying thinking of the tiny heart,

Motherland's bosom refuses to feed,

Not a square foot to sleep under a roof,

Thought for December night is freezing,

The little kid must be sleeping in the open,

Struggling   hard to pass the night,

Imagines not crying for help surrendered,

Missing luck, fortune, fate, a future,

The joke of the creator on human life,

Disheveled promiscuous urban life rich,

Boasting upper strata unambiguous,

Vulgar shows stinking naked dances,

Viral in cyberspace youth influences,

Gasping, surprised, tags recent styles,

Think these witnessed streaming sighs,

Motherland protects them, security guards,

Worth seeing mansion ladies in vanguards,

They leave corroding aromas wild,

Revert to the child silently standing,

Bought an entire lot of flags paid to him,

Sat with him on pavements question,

His name he didn't know parents left,

Big cement pipe is the place he lives there,

Works for a vendor selling goods,

Begs at times, gets some money, lives here,

Gave him some food both enjoyed it,

Surprise glued on his face disheveled,

You love me? the blunt question,

I checked my tears and smiled a deception,

It was not compassion, sympathy,

It was not my love, caring heart,

Fail to express the pain, churning mind,

The education humanity taunt behind,

This is a vibrant land, people bright,

Mostly educated wealthy play noble!

Knows very well slums exist littered,

Disheveled planning metro glitters,

No road, sea of shanties, tin shed,

Muddy path narrow, serpentine congested,

The child was the product of this place,

Listless, if it grows, defeating death,

Tomorrow's youth, not human living,

Ignorant of love, care, sympathy, family,

Loot, use boot against the world challenge,

Never mind access gold prefer carnage,

House may be the jail immaterial,

Angry, concerned now saw well in him,

The country breeds his tribe, nourishes rest,

A few spend a billion on vulgar expenses,

A minuscule will change the life of disheveled,

The tricolor he sells justifies bedeviled,

Son of the soil, you proclaim democracy,

Equal rights, liberty, voice free, not lunacy,

Take me to school, educate me, impart skills,

Enough strength, the disheveled organized!

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Disheveled

Theme: question to land a slum child

Date: 27th December, Cuttack

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