Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 9, No. 4: CLRI November 2022

Richa Tripathi

Price of Poverty

A soiled face, below eighteen age

Died.

How?

Collapsed from the fourth floor

A daily wage laborer

Gone, gone forever

His soul heard wishpers

The price of his pitiable life

Worth of his lifeless body

Now without soul

three Lakh

His parents demanded for five

But the negotiations

And some irrational talks

And claiming for more

Then cleared the body from the floor

His slippers fall as well

Which, he wore

When you slipped

While painting the wall

Gone, gone forever

From this world

Where nobody cares

Who is breathing?

Who is disappeared?

Who is to blame?

For this to happen again and again

It’s the way

It’s a human course

Forgetting the priceless

Trying to get the value

Of everything

Even emotions

But, I am thinking about you

Don't know why

Even when

I am no different from them

They, the crowd

Mere Mortals in the Concreate Jungle

Concrete jungle of skyscrapers

Man now the materialistic brute

Running madly after this printed green currency with deviant faces on it

Abraham Lincoln,follower of the mystic of benevolent

Encrusted the Devine fertile terra firma

For the temporal vacuum celestial domes

Valued nothing but self,

Now running very late,

For the reincarnation of aesthetic taste

Homogeneous demeanor and mechanical attitudes

Different Every with one sight, one outlook

Destroy, Destruction and so much of greed

Challenging one another for the transitory titles in the neverending races

Growing breeds of the partial judgements and assumptions

Dig convergent boundaries to unearth divergent ingression

Mere mortals wallow in deluded self-conceit

But where is that light of levity apart from the heaviness to cross the dark Where earthlings are inhaling gallantry in their own eractions Rejoinder lies in the dubites as candor lies in us.

Born in India, Richa Tripathi, a teacher and a hobby writer who loves to craft her art with words and trying to imbibe humanity in all thought provoking themes.

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