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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