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P K Routray

It is a real picture

slapping a stricture

at the present day human civilization

depicting the misery of life within its horizon

encompassing a majority of present human population

where a girl marrying at an age of thirteen or fourteen

becoming a grandma at thirty as is commonly seen.

Out of malnutrition she grows prematurely old

as the picture here perhaps has not so boldly told.

She carries her granddaughter on shoulder

when poverty and epidemic snatch her bread earner

thus she steps ahead in search of food and shelter

being deaf and dumb to her granddaughter’s tear.

Selfish, present civilized section of human population

(N.B This poem has four parts dwelling on the same picture separately posted

squanders their wealth and subject them to exploitation