REMORSE

 

REMORSE

The day walked with a suitcase,

Awestruck buildings its base,

The mindboggling traffic is busy,

Crowds like machine life easy, (1)

 

Earn hastily enormous heaven,

He was walking, jobless, shaken,

No one looks at him door closed,

Another world an alien if posed, (2)

 

No food hungry worried failed,

failed to find a root home yelled,

Die not there, son home invite,

Shelter cloth food get life excite, (3)

 

He was rebellious, sick on the road,

Lying as if the corpse mocked fraud,

But his condition worsened hit,

Lifted by sympathetic  to treat, (4)

 

Got food, shelter, medicine, healed,

Who served checked him revealed,

The guy was a university topper,

Gold medalist rejected popper, (5)

 

Conveyed consoled promised,

To try his best for a job increased,

He got he wanted a job forgot,

Money prosperity if life results, (6)

 

The arrogance ego dominated,

Who helped him beg intimated,

This guy recognized him very soon,

He is a person in the city, finds boon, (7)

 

 

The remorse he felt recognized him,

Visited their place, ruined prime,

The philanthropic site vanished,

Land grabbed by others wished, (viii)

 

Educated intellect observed sad,

City expands, but migrants, mad,

Diminishing picture sympathy,

Lost citizen outsiders apathy, (9)

 

Found to be a fortunate, his chapter,

No more public view consider,

Think welfare of the local population,

Reluctant to accept angry motions, (10)

 

Incapable of help, he returned,

Ramose he felt past mourned,

Difficult times says advanced,

Sympathy helps no acceptance. (11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Remorse

Themes: Declining public sympathy

Written: 11th May 2024, Cuttack

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