What Is Corruption? Poem by Madhav Sarkunde

What Is Corruption?


What is corruption?

Is it a dieback killing our life tree,
root and branch bit by bit
Or a virus of kleptomania in our veins
infecting the honesty of our spirit?


What is corruption anyway?
Is it necessary evil we cannot live without?
Or is it our animal nature that peeps out?
Is corruption a short cut to amass pelf?
Or is it our perverted and soiled self?


Who invented it?
Who fostered it?
We all want it to go
Why doesn't it yet go?
Where lie its roots?
Who waters them?


Corruption is an unruly greed ruling our mind
it's a quiet old creed robbing folks of all kind
corruption has deeply rooted in our fallible nature
and freely grazes and grows on our base venture
Lokpal will never rub it out, is a truth nonpareil
it can be lynched only by our pristine moral


Corruption is another name of our fallen life
it's an adultery done by us despite having wife
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