Fling A Coin…. Poem by Minnoor srinivasan

Loathsome, filthy and languid am I
Alongside the footpath so helplessly
Crying, look here, fling a coin, kiddo!

Like a leaf dry in cyclone, blown forlorn
I suffer and suffer until dusk from morn
Look here kiddo the world doth me scorn!

Day in and day out I suffer and die
A living death seeking Time's mercy
For redemption through Death from aching penury!

This wayside the people without a sigh
Glimpse me, hearts unmoved pass by,
I beg you kiddo, put a coin kindly!

Kindly my darling playful, blithe and gay
Bent I am with age filled with dismay
Don't you fling a coin, hope you may!