Our Destination

Our destination
P K Routray

Inhuman, unhygienic,
miserable, pathetic,
uncultured, rustic,
needy, hungry, anemic,
emaciated, weak and sick,
illiterate, ignorant, lack of logic,
an important member of our social fabric,
but an insult to modern society civic,
self employed to aid the recycling the plastic
a threat to existence being toxic
the symbolic poison of proud inventions scientific,
being engaged in this filthy works under compulsion tragic
to meet her starving family’s needs basic.
To inequality, partiality, greed and selfishness, she is the best critic
“Shame to your advancement and scientific invention,
shame to your crocodile tear for environmental deterioration,
shame to your plans and programme for equality and justice
shame to your humanitarian worries for hunger, diseases and war crisis.”
Here is an art drawn by us for our drawing and dining hall decoration
to remind us our increasing distance from humble divine destination.

(Written with reference to an old emaciated needy lady picking up plastic from debris)