HUNGER AND DEATH

Can’t you see smelt fishes jumping up streams
to the waters gushing out of the gargoyle 
under the bash of a heavy tropical rain 
their fun resulting in suffocation 
of ready catch in the blinding net of fisherman ;
desires diving deep into the base of sands
grovelling in pain on the river’s dark plane ;
and life getting muddier in the streams
with little help for drowning screams ,
and farmers at the bank gasping ,preferring
to kill self ,failing to fulfil very small,little dreams
the drones of bullets in the sound of this wild fall
terrifying workers in the distant Baghdad
with their helpless parents shedding a rain from eyes
and at the base of every belly a strange hunger cries !

comp. n copyright: saroj k. padhi
03/07/14