Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Whom to Blame ?

 Who to blame ? 

Happiness and prosperity 

Two words , very pithy and pretty


May mean things entirely different

To men , yardsticks are inherent 

In their upbringing and environment

Negation of dreams and fulfilment


To some , a clean road may not be

A religiously guarded priority 

To others , a neat home , prosperity 

Comes with cleanliness guarantee 


To some two square meals a day 

Seems a goal , incredibly faraway 

Everything else 

Increasingly pales 


Into minor irritant

Wholly insignificant 

When survival is at stake 

Glitter and glamour is fake 


Clean homes , glistening car 

A far cry.Distant, irrelevant star 


All cries of civic sense , pollution 

Is just another slogan for election


"Be the change we wish to be" 

Let the first person to obey 

His own wishes , throw the rock 

At all the ignorant , illiterate flock 


Till then , we are all in this together 

A collective colossal guilt , to bear 

The man who spits on the street 

Is , unfortunately, not very different from me . It is us , not them 

Our lack of rules , our blame .

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