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,
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