LOST

Where is the fertility of our soil lost 
beneath layers of such sandy ,concrete crust ?
Where is our creativity lost
beneath heaps of such huge dirt and dust ??
Where is love lost 
beneath layers of absolutely raw lust???
Where is the smile lost 
Beneath layers of thoughts all unjust????

We live here
on the plains of pure hypocrisy
with our shabby habits
seeking purgation
of our physique in the public ;
our true love lurched in panic ;
and fake copulation
gathering dust
in an isolated attic.

Perhaps a shadowy generation
without a sure destination
we seem lost everywhere:
our movement is lost
in the noisy traffic;
our emotions, in public clatters ;
our progress ,in aimless flutters ;
our intellect, in the thick
of unqualified ambition ;
our joy, in meaningless frustration ;
our tastes of food,
in post-swallow indigestion
and our happiness,
in wild hunts for endless fornication ?????

copy right : saroj k. padhi