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What is the value of a person

whose dawn breaks  on streets or railway stations

who sips tea at dingy canteens each day

whose sells scrap to live

who sleeps under an empty sky

Who is he in the city of dreams?

I don’t know.

Perhaps he is a mascot

of disparity, inequality

of empty space

Or of hostility that exists between fortune and misfortune

of segregation that civilization generates

of the gap between exploitation and riches

of estrangement, of non-existence

Or of the stark brutality inherent in the nature of things.

 

Nilesh P Megnani is a meditation facilitator and a professor of Philosophy.

Connect with him on neelvijayalaxmi@gmail.com

 

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