Have you ever realised ?

You bath three times a day
To keep yourself vigorous
And swim in the pool of water
To keep yourself in good shape
But have you ever realized that
Billions of people have no access
To the clean drinking water
For their very endurance
And millions die each year
Due to the lack of drinking water


You eat more than you can digest
And hurl the surplus foods in the garbage
Citing it stale and insalubrious to health
And run a mile to shed your excess weight
But have you ever realized that
Millions die each year due to starvation
In this illusive world of conjectural equality,
Where billions survive on just one meal a day
Though they labour hard everyday in the field
Hoping to intercourse with the new beginning


You earn extravagant wealth
That is more than enough
Not only for you
But for your grand children to live on
Without labouring beneath the scorching Sun
And boast others, riding on the back of your wealth
But have you realized that
Half the world
Nearly three billion people lives
On less than two dollars a day


You raise the slogan of child labour
And resolve to end the child slavery
That is entangling the future of humanity
But have you ever realized that
Less than one percent
Of what the world spent
Every year on weapons of destruction
Was needed to put every child into school
And yet it didn't happen
Even after the dawn of the 21st century


You call yourself a savant
Because you know everything
And you have great access to knowledge
And judge people by their
Educational credentials
And not by their humanitarian preferences
But have you realized that
Nearly a billion people
Entered the 21st century
Unable to read a book or sign their names


You are free like the bird in the sky
And freedom is the light of your life
But have you realized that
Billions of people cannot imagine their own imagination
Nor can they appreciate their own freedom
But like the vagabond they ambles ever
In the course of adversity that ends never
For they are ravenous and their story is as dismal
As the heart wrecked by the tragic separation
Of hopeful hope from the canal of its optimism
 

By :- Bhuwan Thapaliya
Kathmandu
e-mail :- sweetzypher@hotmail.com

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