Sink for those Wretched and Famished

Contemporary Poetry Anthology by Santosh Kumar Biswa

Sink for those Wretched and Famished

Vie not to exhibit your mellowness To adopt your state as lofty as the Everest, For the nuclear dropping ample measures And those futile ventures to elevate. In lieu, sink for those wretched and famished, And more of their sort, out of courtesy.

Train no further trooper, ample you possess, Rather than, upskill those forlorn ones, To brawl not in a skirmish, but for penury That hushes the bowl until they turn dry. Proffer them with tackles not with mortars To vivify the dirt and raise what you need. And so, all the coevals shall advance Not to relocate but to thrive where they live. Hold them to burgeon first your tillage To salvage, to prepare your dirt prolific Never to erect the huddled urban thereon, For their security never to starve again.