Bhartendu Second - Now or Ever

there is a sky
beyond the reach
of that starving child

his hunger
his dimming eyesight
even before it could look
at the world of joys

that child is not
a poetic enigma
but the haunting face
of a real world

refusing to offer anything
better to him
now or ever

Bhartendu Second

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