Abundance And Scarcity Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

Kid, you have everything on your plate,
Though delicious, you don’t want to eat,
You are quiet and scheming to go out,
To look for the trash from ‘the dump site’,

Child, don’t shout to vibrate the ear drum,
We have no enough of anything to feed you right,
Learn to smile whenever you see the dudes,
Crying babies no more get anything from the wallets.

We are from the two different worlds,
The world of debt and the seriously debt,
The world of cheap assets and the vertically assessed,
The world of petty borrowers and the loan sharks,

Children, we all look for the peace to sleep at night,
We look for the love that Jesus of Middle East professed,
We toil for the wealth, not enjoying day to day life,
The new world will rise from the dirt to have peace of mind.