When The Whole World Sleeps, You A Chandal By The Ghat Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

When the whole world sleeps,
When the whole world,
You a chandal,
A chandal keeping late into the night
Standing guard of
For the cremation to be taken of,
The pyre to be allowed to burn,
Standing guard of,
Keeping late into the night,
Collecting taxes whatsoever
In terms of clothes, logs, grains or some money
When the world,
The whole world sleeps
Keep you awake, awake
Late into the night, the night
When the world,
The world, King Harishchandra in the form
Of a chandal guarding a ghat
And collecting taxes
And even not sparing his son and wife,
Son Rohit and wife Sabya!