DISCOVERY, Poetry by BASANTA KUMAR PANIGRAHI

Genre: Dark, Society, Political

DISCOVERY
by BASANTA KUMAR PANIGRAHI

Darkness everywhere–
In the heart of the dense forest
Far away, so far away,
who has lit a fire
that look like the flickering evening star?

The aristocrats who walk on flowers
Stumbled on fallen leaves
And told the government straight,
it was not possible to move further in the jungle.

Those of the middle class who limped like
the differently-abled,
Stumbled on fallen leaves and were overjoyed
as though they had tripped on flowers
And thanked the government.

How do the lower middle class look ?
The aristocrats who had courageously embarked on the journey
to discover this,
shouted at the government and came back,
And then the middle class put their foot forward.

One among them said–
After a few days,
We would all become lower middle class
Thank the Lord; praise the government profusely.

All countries are present…