DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF
DELHI
No matter how many malls or flyovers we continue
to build or make,
This Souless City requires a Spiritual re-shake!
Here people are left on the road to die or bleed,
Be it during a cold winters morn, -
Or on a day of intense summer's heat!
Eve-teasing and chain snatching are pastimes of
our misguided youth,
Where is the time to meditate or delve at truth? !
Our growing self-centered attitude and blatant
indifference,
Resulted in flight of good thoughts and decent
civic sense.
Murder is common and mostly senior citizens are
preys,
Here seniors are scared to face their silvery days!
Wine is thicker than blood, and killers are well
paid,
Even relatives are not spared, and by greed waylaid!
Votes can be purchased, with bribery and
corruption,
Whoever spoke of any spiritual revival or salvation? !
Even Yogic Institutions make lakhs every day,
With commercialized yoga for the body, while the
spirit goes astray!
O dear citizens wake up before it gets too late,
Or some massive earthquake may seal our fate!
-Raj Nandy
New Delhi
29 Jul 08
thought giving write.. preach we know, practice not.. reality bites us hard but realise we not the reality in real.. how painful to witness the sufferings around.. cities are blind onlookers no feeling left for others. your write is for modern world hypocrisy, an eye opener, applicable for all.. excellent work 10 Rema
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brutally honest, a TIMely wake up call. city without a soul. have been a victim of public apathy after a road accident. i hpoe people read this and the message is HEEDED. Mamta