114.Make Your Statement Poem by rajagopal haran

Parents are in the village
Where bus is a luxury
Phone is forbidden
Television is a dream
Nobody to take care
They are alone for each other!

Better half is in the town
Pushing day after day
Shy preventing her expression
Keeping things to her heart
Kicking the nights hard
She dies of separation
Air alone to spend with
She waits for the dawn that never shows her twilight!

Children are in the boarding school
With long hours so boring
None to teach the good and bad
No stories for the bedtime to snore
Crush their days
By their frustrating routines!

I am also alone
In this foreign land of plenty
I also have none
To share my feelings
But
With shame I declare
I am a family man!

(Note: there is a Sanskrit slogam from Subhashitam which I read today

Bho dhariththriyam namasthubyam thath prasadhaath mayaa chchuudhaha!
Pashyaamyaham jagath sarvam na maam pashyathi kaschana

The above means: Hail Poverty! You have set me free! It is because of you that I can see everybody else but nobody can see me!

This inspired me)

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