we live thus - a poem

We live thus                                                                                  - Essarci

He may be your son or my daughter

who works in Indian sea shore

in a software company

works for twelve hours a day

and gets one third of what his counterpart gets

for eight hours a day

in United States of America.

Thanks a lot to Globalization.

If one workman white goes on leave

a month In Chicago

From my India your son or my daughter flies to and

works sixteen hours a day on deputation

and gets twice of

What he would have got other wise here.

Pray we to God daily no doubt.

For the fortune thus showered to

Disregarding fellow men and women

Glittering spares of.

long new cars shipped to our soil

Silky automobiles born of these

taken in procession for quit escape.

Car companies drink our drinking water

Breathe our breezy air

We get in turn drinks drowsy and dirty smoke

Grip they our electric power nonstop

Making our hospitals sweat in Indian summer.

Brilliant school children of this soil

Brought out exploiting

Blood and sweat of our pale peasants

Get flights to Newyork and London

Work for and work with less privileged

And feel mock- living, atop

.

Fish flesh flower and fruits

Greens a lot and vegetables fresh

Fly to distant land

Filling up heavy purse of

men speaking a different tongue.

Cricket players learn to play

Earn, and earn to be gay.

Cricket now is a business global

Sports all gone and money left.

Nationalism narrow grows

On the bat borne stickers

Pooh-poohing the bold  vision of

by gone bards Shelley and Keats.

We pay for water now

For air to breathe and sun shine to live

Either we should pray

Or should we get away

For us what is in store, days ahead will decide.

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