Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Papa … mama ooh!
I need education
I need to build a mansion
I need the knowledge
Of reading and writing
Look … Look at my siblings
Look at their tattered clothes
Look at my eldest brother
He is getting his daily bread
From that rubbish heap
And he has a family
Papa … even if we are wretched
Success has got no fence
I can do it
Remember
Am the last in the family
So please papa and mama
Give me the chance only once
And I’ll not let you down

As the dewy day dawns 
The pensive puritans pray 
For the evil-perched penurious persons 
And the impious insolent idiots 
Deep in sleep and weak 
The beer-salved snore screwy 
With wino women wheezing beside them 
Anticipating for the usual morning act 
An outstretched hand and a lying place 
Ironically in their businesses 
The pompous and pious persons ponder 
For the towns doomsday or death 
The helpless and humble housewives
Collectively cheer in their chores 
As the non-coddled malnourished children 
Enjoy the hurly burly atmosphere of their shouts 
Dusk destines the fate of the destitute 
The drunk, the desperadoes and the dumbos 
As if summoned, they abandon their sleep in unison 
The drunk soberly desert to their homes 
To their piteous wives who struggled for a living 
The thugs tamper with the towns riches 
As the diligent puritans still hold their faith 
The children scuffle for the little 
As they scuffle on their way to bed
The housewives scream in unison 
As they give a share to their husbands 
The wino women eagerly wait 
For their prey that they lure with their baits
Then the partying, dancing and clubbing
Since the day has began for the soot stained
Hence the reverse rhythm in the culdesac