City Life For the Masses

The loo enters during summers, The chill penetrates in the winters The ceiling leaks during monsoons, The mosquitoes sting like harpoons Came to the city with many dreams From the lands of plains, valleys & streams Came to the city, to earn a living, with wishes The mirage of untold, unforeseen riches (The City) Pulled them into its greedy claws, Hiding it’s own weaknesses, it’s flaws What have they become here, now? Forced to make their heads bow, As a driver, sweeper or domestic help Confined to their lowly class, like a slave’s whelp Ridiculed, raped, beaten, manipulated Was it in their fate, to be cheated? Were they not happy, in their valleys, their farms? What drove them to the city, in great swarms? Will they ever go back, escape? Or will the city life forever hold them agape?