Senseless propitiation

One offers flowers, the other, coconut and grains,
Some one, a fowl or goat and some, even human being
To the image of Goddess; a nonliving entity.
Offer of living things to propitiate non living idols.
07.01.2001, pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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