Hard working men
Carrying rice bags
As heavy as their weights
Working in market lanes
All day along
Dawn till dusk
Earning pennies very few
Only to flock arrack shops
Spending time from dusk till dark
So menacing one such day
Many of them begin to die
Illicit liquor taking heavy toll
Ending their lives
Hooch tragedy
Rocking the day
Everyone should campaign
No drinking for healthy living
the poem starts off well with sympathy for the laborers who drink because it gives them some respite from their daily suffering. But will campaigning solve their problems? Wouldn't it be a better idea if we think of ways to provide them alternative means of employment?
Misery of downtrodden section of India is painfully pictured here.It is a everyday life of toiling people of our nation. Let us pray god to free this great nation from this menace. Nice sentments and feelings for fellow men.
Sympathy in the beginning was what I saw, then it turned to somekind of persuasion to stop drinking liquor. Nicely written with good intentions. Good job. Thanks for inviting me to readyour poem, it's my pleasure.
Trolleys and Tempos are used in cities. Workers carrying loads on their backs and squandering their hard earned money in liquor shops is still going on somewhere. Women are demolishing the liquor shops in Tamil Nadu. The poet has written a poem on the forgotten group of workers. Excellent!
Oh, sad men in their life but they can live better if they read some books after their working! thanks for your poems
Where do you live to write about such tragic events? Is this poem indeed historically significant?
Beautiful poem again from you. Its very positive message... May be the heavy work load, at the end just a penny, so many stomach to feed, tumbled in worries, so may lead to way to arrack..But some do it just for fun also....may be they may change once they get good income, then some positivity in their life will surely come. A dream they can think of something optimistic. Unemployment, under wages..one of the main reasons for this.. Loved the message you wanted to convey it.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Great poem with a powerful message...