I Want You To Enjoy What I Have Enjoyed.. Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

How many loaves of bread and fish you have,
Keep on the desert sand, we have to do the prayers,
To multiply and fill the baskets to distribute,
To the hungry hands those have the flexible fingers,
Yet to be hardened with the routine work,
The stomachs of many millions murmur the songs,
Of Beethoven’s, sometimes Mozart’s,
Recite the poems of ancient valiant Tamil Poets,
Who never sung flattery to fill their shrunken stomachs,
Still the acid secrete with vengeance to break the stubborn mind,
No one has ever broken the spirit with tempting popcorns,
That evaporates the sugar in the verandah of Cineplex,
Men on the roads with the visceral fat deposits,
Men on the paths with loads of worries on the back,
Men are everywhere, while the women liberate,
From one ignorance to another mistake,
Take the loaves and the fish; let us form the enterprise,
Appoint someone with a ‘power’ as the chief executive,
We shall mint the money through food business,
No one will go hungry as long as we have the initiative,
Let their flexible fingers get stiffened and feel the pain,
Let everyone on earth enjoy what we have enjoyed here,
With enough amount of wages, taxes, diseases and despair.