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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