Pay Bribe And Get Poem by Mehta Hasmukh Amathaal

Pay bribe and get

O lord, Prabhu*
I tried to go through
All old articles
About struggle by people

What did we get?
From freedom till date
Only cast politics
With no basics

Poor may suffer
Intelligentsia has nothing to offer
Only free people resort to politics
Do we have any ethic?

There is enough of money
people come with lucrative offer daily
You need to do nothing
Except favoring

Now no more poor left in country
No one talks of birth control in family
No more influx of foreigners
Even though they are spotted everywhere

So we have freedom and liberty
And same is liked by everybody
Media reports if paid handsomely
News papers are full of corruption and rapes daily

Nothing remains unsaid
Everything is openly laid
Pay bribe and get job
Schools have teachers but outside practice has not stopped

Prabhu: - name meaning God