You - A Friend In Need

In India, seeing rag pickers and street urchins is a common affair. It is everyday you see how small kids live their life so miserably (live alone the grown-ups), yet for them life goes on.........for us too!

You - A Friend In Need

I saw a poor girl yesterday
she kept munching on some yellow waste
Hastily making out like a perfect flour paste
as I stood gawping, she kept herself busy.

I look'd Heaven ward... and cried, "How 'fortunate' we are!"
who in time get the best of food
baked in oven and much taken in mood.
My! it's the same world we all share. 
 

So She sleep cosily on the sidewalks
biting dust of every season,
A roof and a dream She can reason 
O God! by your side may she never ask.

Someone from the street's dying
and the one inside the roof's on diet
but no one's to blame for this tide.
For ages have long passed thinking and thinking.

And now, you may cross this path sooner or later
or in your haste lives forget to pass by -

But think of these lines under this sky -
"Friend, it's time we make this world a little better".

Author's Note

Great for motivatons.

Reviews

[None]

There are so many doing without daily needs and yet charities collect millions of dollars for the future. It' not right to have people going hungry in the world while others are storing away and throwing away food. You did a very nice job relaying real feelings, thoughts and sadness. It's a sad state. Very good writing!

[Coyote Poetry]

Your strong poem open the door to a hard world. I have seen the poor in many places in the world. They have accepted their life and survived. I believe the people who need little will inherit the earth. They will survive when the world become more dangerous and harder to live in. A outstanding poem. Thank you.
Coyote

[Tali Longkumer]

It is always a sad world when half of the world is dying in hunger!

[Vera Iconica]

It sad, but very good.