Begging Bowl

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Begging Bowl

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Squatting with a begging bowl

On the dusty Kolkata street

Unkempt unshaven vagabond

"Give me some more time"

He pleads tears rolling down

His red bloodshot sleepless eyes

"I wish to live to hundred...

Alas ! god won't grant me that

Please alm me  few more years

My dear philanthropic wayfarers"


©bishu

 
Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by a Bengali poem by Md Ziaul Haque

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