He struggles to have a few, while the other for a few more!

I walked pass the street

A woman lay in the corner asleep

I pitied her crisis and walked ahead praying

May god bless her with better things

at a signal I saw a few kids

Two inside a car, peeping out from the window

Two outside trying to woo them

Woo them with the way they twisted & turned their bodies

So that a smile from the ones inside,

Would let them make peace with their appetite

I moved ahead and saw a few men

Some sitting inside a well-lit building

A few trying to build up a similar one

When I was sweating while walking alone

I wondered what must be their plight

Working in scorching heat to manage a plate

For their families waiting at home

I went home and saw a girl

She was my age and pretty

While she washed the dishes

I saw her dreams crushed down

For she had no business

Of thinking to study

Her life was confined to dirty dishes

The next day I went pass the same path

The woman who lay asleep had actually died

And still nobody cared to stop by and help

They walked pass feeling sad

I walked pass too

The kids who twisted & turned their bodies

Were standing at the food stall nearby

They asked for a frooti, with a ten rupee in hand

They had a glint in their eyes and a wide smile

The vendor shooed them away for they were a penny less

The frooti was for eleven, he said

They went with their heads hung low, I stood their numb

Then I saw a handful of them less

The site where men worked tirelessly

A roof had fallen upon on a few

And I thought of the abandoned families

When reached home, she wasn’t there too

I asked our maid, her mother

She was sent to the village for marriage, she said

I wondered of her predicament, as if this was less

When we complain of ACs not working fine

Of travelling by an auto, for we don’t have our own car

And while we curse the school for holding tests,

A few destitute remain inside our homes washing our mess

These are the plight of poor

Of people who die everyday

Striving to manage

A square meal, a day!