The Dreams of a Lady Stone Breaker
I got the inspiration to write this Poem from a picture published on face book of a lady stone breaker as per URL given below
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1781024618826774&set=a.1379567658972474.1073741827.100007577587963&type=3&theater
The dreams of a lady stone breaker
.
I keep hammering the stones
Till they break into pieces
From morning till evening
While keeping myself mum
So that my child
Tied on my back
May not get disturb, sad and cry. 01
.
Then only I get
Some money to survive
The next twenty four hours
Not for myself but
For this small child
To feed him some milk and bread. 02
.
But to live and survive
Is not that easy
That one gets work
Everyday
After breaking
All these stones
I hardly get some time
To pass it
With satisfaction and at ease. 03
.
I do not know
How and what happiness is
But when I get some work
Then I feel as if
My prayers are accepted
I tomorrow I shall not be
wandering here and there
To search some job
Then what I feel and reflect
on my face
Perhaps would be
What you call happiness
The happiness of getting a job. 04
.
Just that is my wealth
My dream and
My wishes
To live and survive.
Your happiness
Would be something different
But that
I do not know. 05
Ravindra K Kapoor
18 12. 2016
Copyright © Ravindra K Kapoor | Year Posted 2016
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