<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=522411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rag-pickers Versus Vain-glories!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rag-pickers versus Vain-glories! <br> <br>A huge, loaded poly-fibre sack<br>On his heavily-tilted back<br>Profusely bleeding sweat, <br>The rag picker boy trudges along! <br>He plunges his face unfailingly<br>Into every waste-bin within his jurisdiction, <br>Searching like a cock, scavenging for rags<br>That resemble his crumbled dreams! <br>To earn half-meal a day<br>He drags himself all along the way, <br>Stitching his face to the earth-<br>Never a look at the blue heavens-<br>Thrusting his fate into the back-breaking sack! <br>While so many such ill-fated boys and girls<br>Daily plod through their lives-<br> <br>Yes, there is another group-<br>Amidst vain boastful talks, <br>In air-conditioned cushioned comforts, , <br>As arrogance personified, <br>Torching the hours <br>To poisonous smoke-rings, <br>Flashing costly currencies<br>On cups of coffee and snacks<br>Inside dimly-lit dungeons<br>Of secretive so called star-hotels-<br> <br>When i see these vain glories, <br>The banyan of my heart<br>Lowers down aerial-roots of anger<br>In thick clusters breathing fire; <br>It thirsts to unlock the cocks<br>Of guns to train on these <br>Rich mindless wasteful souls! <br> <br> -s.chandra kalaadhar</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sundaram+Chandrakalaadhar">Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=522411" data-title="Rag-pickers Versus Vain-glories! de Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar" data-description="Rag-pickers versus Vain-glories! A huge, loaded poly-fibre sack On his heavily-tilted back Profusely bleeding sweat, The rag picker boy trudges along! He plunges his face unfailingly Into every waste-bin within his jurisdiction, Searching li..."></div> </div> </div>

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