PITTANCE

 

PITTANCE

 

 

Beat your chest, boast proudly,

Towering reputation richness,

Life bestowed wealth supremacy,

Respect people in words cowed,

Fearful of brute power submit,

Accept order, dare not to challenge,

Monopoly society witnesses clueless,

Rare to complain force succumbs,

Concrete towers countless vehicles,

Business astronomical spiral rise,

Thousand strong workers throng,

Hard work compensated meagerly,

Booted against demand law mute,

The economy highlights these faces,

Shining boot, polished behavior,

The suite tie clip diamond jaded,

Fragrant presence words are polite,

Calmly proclaim stern eyes a fact,

The rule economy of a country,

Exploit a million lives fully secured,

Exploit landmass ores rich and rare,

Exploit green forest water bodies,

Exploit leaders run elections by proxy,

Money plays, voters hunger and lust,

Look at these glass towers glazing,

Look at the asphalt roads vehicles,

Look at officials covering the globe,

Look at the milling crowd of office-goers,

Becoming rich just one family best,

Vast subjects deliver goods on time,

Look at rustic life in slum suburban cities,

Look at children under-nourished,

Sunken eyes still shinning unaware,

Smiling at diseases, malnutrition,

Poor parents lack money, sad children,

Deprived of schools, playful, pity,

Dirty torn dress crumple burly hair,

Little they demand far from the study,

Lord's flowers, once born, will wither,

Lord has deserted the place forgotten,

Lord, awestruck at merry-making too,

Another side of the streets stays the city,

Paranoid civilized society thinks affluent,

Every modern gadget asset, furniture,

Plenty of bank balance high-rise flats,

Children at school, educated at skill,

Fit to be into the labor force like parents,

work day and night yearlong diligent,

Most unlucky people barely realize,

Lost private life, love, and care a lot,

Lost children their fun altogether,

Lost family life, home celebrations,

Lost picnic, travel to sites, pilgrims,

Lost the time for vacation, recluse,

Lost wonderful nature, its splendor,

Work with currency under feet well,

Stolen their life unaware tear swell,

Children with little link to their parents fled,

Spread their wings far off nesting too,

Crashing family bond relationships,

Money, money, and money courtship,

God left from the heart of these men,

I stood at the crossroad perplexed,

Two worlds starkly different, Godless,

Civilization needs realization critical,

Pittance Lord's mercy for deprived,

A pittance for the paranoid urban creature,

Pittance Lord's grace for budding flowers,

One is a fallen flower other turns robot,

Sat on a roadside bench at remorse,

When human seeks nature, simple life,

Truly education across all ages, gender,

Pittance not in dictionary bliss exist,

Bountiful, beautiful, nature and Earth,

Life is happy, joyous, wise, and bestowed.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Pittance

Themes: Pittance zeroed life midst of nature

Written: 27th June 2023, Cuttack

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