Incomplete Assistance

Incomplete Assistance

P K Routray

An orphan child lying alone

with legs multiply broken

in a pool of blood

amidst dirt and mud

noticed by a passerby.

Moved by the child’s pathos and cry

admitted him, he  under nursing care

paying off the full treatment fare.

Time as usual passed on

the face of the child by him was forgotten.

Once this man was passing by a jail

from back ground he heard a wail

looking back he saw a young man

with a smile of gratitude to him he ran

and coming near bowed him in reverence

reminding him of the past incidence.

To the natural query of the man as to his career

the young man sighed and brust out with tear

revealing that he resorts to an heinous profession

to earn his livelihood and to avoid starvation.

“ Sir I am grateful to you for my life and feet,

you enabled me to live and walk on the street

but I could get none to show me the right path

to walk in the street of life without social wrath.”

Parents help their child to learn how to toddle

but they also need the ways in life, with values how they can battle.

For orphan children, philanthropists come forward to fulfill their basic need

but it fails in its mission if they do not learn the ways in life, they have to lead.