Today, like every other day
I open the newspaper…
A homicide case
19 year old
An honour killing
A student committed suicide
In campus ragging
Rupee falling
Inflation rising
Political parties busy in
Hoarding and mud slinging
I open my window…
A factory exhaling smoke
Engulfing the slum
Ever so widening
Carcinogenic fumes
Lung cancer increasing
Amongst the slum dwellers
Insanitary conditions
Reeking and stinking
Poverty line stretching
I open my door….
And let my maid in
She is pregnant again
I think its 6th
Their ever proliferating offspring
I have stopped counting
Education becoming dearer
Job opportunities extinct
I open my garage….
Get inside my car
Fuel needle dropping
Almost collide
A vehicle over speeding
On traffic lights
An unkempt, shabby kid
Window pane tapping
Beggary is the only industry
Flourishing n thriving
I open my mind….
I shut my eyes
What are we doing
To ourselves
To our new saplings
To our mother earth
Ozone diminishing
Corruption full swing
Amassing concrete and polyurethane
Losing our green
Proliferating exponentially
Resources depleting
What the hell are we doing
God save us
From our own species
Our unchecked greed
To exploit n succeed
Our unquenched lust
For power ‘n’ feat
To fleece ‘n’ cheat
Our mental myopia
Indifferent and boorish
Let me do something
I open my desk…..
Papers in piles
Emails and files
A staff member to penalize
Target to meet
A boss to please
No time to think
A hectic day isn’t it
And I get busy
Doing more important things !!
Living to Winning 
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