Scavenger
girl – ‘Karunasri’ Jandhyala Papayya Sastry
You gave up
your pleasure and life
for your brethren
This
greedy world is ignorant
Of your
love innocent.
Your
pure nature showed the pathway
Even
to the Mahatmas for helping the country
Yours
is the first golden kiss of
Mother
India!
With broom on one hand and a basket on the other
You
sweep the piles of sin, girl!
Don’t
you feel any aversion?
The
Lord sheds warm tears at your patience
vast !!
Till
Kalpanta your
routine pure
A
commentary for the great dawn of cosmic
love
This
world blames you as a scavenger girl
Indebted
to you forever, Mother of creation !
Ignorant
of rot in him
In
a rickshaw pulled by the skeleton-like
man
The
red-faced monkey chides you in pride for not giving way
As
if his house were swept away !
Inept
to grasp your sacrifice age-old
Makes
a fuss over a few pennies by this world
As
if you were created by god
To
serve the world sans disgust !
Sister!
Why does this demoniac world
Rains
poison on seeing your visage?
It’s
a cattle market to insult humanity
Kindness
alone is casualty!
The
beauty of the our towns visible
Exposed
the lives of Sahibs
If
you refused to sweep any day.
For
your holy service
For your life of
sacrifice
Not
shed a tear of compassion!
Or heaved a sigh heavy!!
Enough sympathy
for this apathetic social order
Crushing you
under iron heels
Ways are many
for filling your belly
Out of this life
miserable!
The
self-serving despise you as a scavenger girl!
Lost
introspection in a short span these
awful fools !
Wasn’t
our mother a scavenger
When
we were babies!
Your
form is that of mother
Your
consciousness a street pious for goddess of love
Your
work selfless
Your
nature glorious, Salutes !
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