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Ask me what is poverty???

I will tell you slightly

Don’t keep pity on me

Just listen to me.

Poverty is all about naked feet touching the dusty ground,

Losing happiness with wind

Empty plates with empty stomach

Turning into theft and rubbery

Just to earn a hand to mouth.

It is more cruel and devastating

Than you hear or see in the news.

It is all about staying alert throughout the night

Just to prevent a mosquito bite.

It is all about working 14-16 hours a day

Just to feed the starving children.

It is all about sleepless nights

Just thinking if he could survive

Until his children are grown up.

It is all about staying silent

Against the injustice and violence

Just to save his job.

It is all about dying untimely

Just for not having enough money

To buy prescribed medicines.

Don’t keep pity on me.

Just listen to me.