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Why do you ignore
An empty hand that implores?
For a few crumbs of bread
Or some pennies instead.
A strong resentment in you I feel,
Reflecting repulsion in the glance you steal
Ready with hollow advices to preach ,
Declaring begging a perpetrating disease.
No comforts you offer nor a penny you spare.
Comparing mendicants to criminals is not fair.
For if you are deprived of endearment
Don’t blindly give your judgment.
Addicted to wasting meals ,
How would you know our ordeal
For pangs of hunger buffeting thus,
Seems a relentless curse on us.
Forced to live on others mercy, dying each day of ignominy.
This plight of us brought about by your tyranny.
Your malpractices and selfish schemes, havoc wreaks.
Unfathomable greed makes humanity weep.
A thoroughly trenchant and poignant piece delivered with commendable poetic aplomb.
Compassion exemplified in the poem, portrays the agony of a conscious soul.
Thank you for appreciating the poem.
A well-crafted,insightful,and poignant poem revealing the poet’s profound sense of empathy.
Thank you Sir .Its so nice when a poet and the readers thoughts are in synchrony.
Very touching poem on the callous behaviour towards mendicants!
Thank you Sir .Wish we had many more eye openers tht would encourage all to think about them seriously and help them.