DELINQUENCY

 

DELINQUENCY

 

Secret was his lifestyle that I knew,

Closest friend of my life, I view,

School pass out with flying color,

Our lives change my life differ,(1)

 

Continued with vigor in the study,

My ambition career job moody,

Separated both in due course,

Missed him decades, of course, (2)

 

Established have family stays,

Children wife serves her ways,

Parents with me senior in age,

Our care, love, and support craze, (3)

 

The happy, decent family, lives, link,

What I dreamed achieved pink,

Enjoyed parents blessing a lot,

Being a father sensations escort, (4)

 

Met once a friend's parent cried,

Weeping aunty, her son defied,

Left home without notice hurt,

Stopped study living extrovert, (5)

 

Scarcely visit home, no contact,

Nomadic life tours villages fact,

Roam among downtrodden fit,

Care street children love to greet, (6)

 

Live with them teaches kids well,

Help kids to pass school, hail,

Lacks dress money belongings,

Lives self-chosen wrongdoings, (7)

 

From respectable family status,

Wealthy parents only son focus,

Rejected comfortable life luxury,

Refused for married life illusory, (viii)

 

Preferred single-life serves sick,

Provide well, medicine, food, seek,

Obliged villagers recognize well,

His service voluntary love dwell, (9)

 

Surprised my friend with jail news,

His parents narrated all, refused,

Refuse their help, stay in jail at odds,

Villagers visit him and treat him as if God, (10)

 

Provide cloth food plead release,

Demands law officers, increase,

Aghast at his crimes, he fought,

Wounded business-men caught, (11)

 

He beat them brutally, criticized them,

Some were seriously hospitalized,

Visit the place to understand facts,

Business-men lend money acts, (12)

 

Looting illiterate poor people hit,

Collecting money forcefully, beat,

Confiscate their belonging land,

My friend challenged evil, hand, (13)

 

Onlookers were villager support,

Police caught him imprisoned rot,

Learned his delinquency delicate,

Ideal life felt proud to help dedicate, (14)

 

Supported by a friend, fought well,

Released from jail, free village hail,

Enigma for them, stigma for laws,

Delinquency cries, aunty, life owes. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Delinquency

Themes: Leaving family, status, is it delinquency?

Written: 30th October 2023, Cuttack

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