IMPOVERISHED.. Moitreyee Raju

  

Poverty is a highly cherished entity.
No don't be surprised...cherished it is!
'Cause it satiates the urge for charity;
For many it's even a road to sanctity.
Here famine of thoughts and feelings
very gleefully display their ugly peelings!

Poverty's barren valley
is unscrupulously left to rally,
all those deep seated woes buried in its alley;
Woes mired in both kind and creed
and are powerful enough to make you weep!
But do you weep...?
At the perpetual indifference,
showered with such deep reverence?
Writ large in the eyes of your brethren?

Their pangs of hunger
have often made me wonder,
how do they muster such candor?
I can sense a seething volcano within;
A revolt, is what they're asking?
But being quiet amidst the disquiet
has been the gigantic bane
of this very vast human lane.

But poverty can even create trysts
wherever it comes to exist;
Yes, trysts with the mind
where poverty really thrives!
And my thoughts often glide,
on the wavy tides
of a poverty stricken mind....!

Like the deep dark cloak of night
when poverty enters the domain of mind,
leaving it impoverished,
making it appear malnourished,
evergreen thoughts then sound gibberish;
As if there never is a day after the night,
resemblant of a dark tunnel devoid of light.
It's a happening that happens in you
when poverty outgrows you!

Poverty creates a dreamer,
the dreamer salvages the achiever.
But an impoverished mind
has an opium like bind,
that can only trample and curtail your rise!!

©️MR/19/7/21
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