GRASSROOTS

 

GRASSROOTS

 

Grew up educated and believed,

Professional life status survived,

Skyscrapers kiss the sky, symbolize,

Where human aspiration is realized, (1)

 

Work starts at day to late night,

Travel far-flung, purpose a flight,

Conference meeting people thrill,

Famous hotel's monotonous drill, (2)

 

Mosaic marble floors chandelier,

Bedroom foam mattress superior,

Bewilder bathroom switches stay,

The comfort restaurants dismay, (3)

 

Variety of food leisure life passes,

A bundle of currency earns splashes,

Fewer believed education provides,

Lifestyle work prestige a high ride, (4)

 

It has been years forgot home, sad,

In front star hotels, demeanor mad,

Unknown guise smiles and says a few,

Visiting card bank cards to review, (5)

 

The tall building glass tower, I fear,

Aloof, strange life, polite behavior,

Why do I get scared wish home soon,

Remorse the look of children, moon, (6)

 

Papa, have you come stay a week,

I replied to children, holiday seek,

Want to return to our village eager,

Informed my parents past assure, (7)

 

Changed life so soon abode nature,

I grew up here with beautiful, verdure, 

Rustic hallow rural scenes change,

Thatched roof parents life amaze, (viii)

 

Sleep on the lap of my mother resting, 

Children laughing at me and enjoying,

Rice water leaves vegetables chilly,

Onion tamarind mango eats silly,(9)

 

Forget hotel food childhood taste, 

Lunch over card games, then rest,

Children asked, papa, now your life,

I answered my grass root, not strife. (10)

 

The life far from high society class,

Far from metal road towers glass,

Far from tension, worries, visions,

Grassroots survived eons, reasons. (11) 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Grassroots

Themes: Village life than city life

Written: 1st March 2024 Cuttack

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