Plight Of An Underprivileged Child

Wearing clothes filthy and torn;

Lost emotions dry and gone,

Carrying a huge bag with world of dreams;

Searching in bins for their daily needs.

Struggling in Earth where he is born;

Nor shelter nor home to live upon,

Living in streets where animals born.

Hair torn with pale yellow face;

Hunger and malnutrition are on their face,

Crumbled house with large families;

Living like Royal but no salary.

Walking barefoot around the corners;

No pain in feet,

No pain in soul;

Curious about the changing world.

No meal to eat,

No clean water to drink,

Eating cupcakes in his dreams,

No competition and fear in life

High dreams of living life.

Dreams of becoming stars;

Dream of life,

Willing to go school;

For learning something in life,

Broken dreams are always there;

With full of fog and misty winds.

Lost in the world;

Lost in the dreams,

Colours of walls are dull as their dreams,

Bony skin with no flesh;

Their future is painted with dirt.

But what about when it comes to us,

Everyone treats him like dirt;

Be the protagonist or be the advocate,

Be me and you;

We do the same thing when it comes to us.

World is changing making human more wild,

Talking about evolution but mentally depressed;

No one cares and no one loves,

The Unprivileged Child is again lost in the world,

Where he dreams and dreams with empty mind;

No future, no light to guide the steps.

Dies in the end with no words to say,

No one knows “The Story of Underprivileged Child”;

From where he came,

And where he went.

---------------------------------Pritam Kashyap