BLACK MONEY
What can white money get for you?
Not even sufficient food for your family
Forget about pleasure trips, get togethers
Parties and presentations
Not even an expensive dress for your spouse
They say and live in utter discontent
Always hoping for a windfall
And gloss over black money
Eulogizing its potency and power 
To influence people to an extent
Where nothing else can with it vie
Placing money at the ultimate high.

Raising the respect of the horder
The expectations of the receiver
Increasing sellability in the bazaar
Enhancing all prospects too far.

‘You are backward’ they say
And shoo your ideology away
With such words where
You come to ask yourself
If all this loud talk about
Honesty and integrity
cleanliness and morality
Not end up with a big,
Very big WHY???
Copy right: saroj k. padhi