Food is precious ,
give it but not throw it out
Composed by
P.R.Ramachander
(I have borrowed some
words and idea from a
tamil poem on hunger given in http://kezhil.blogspot.in/2010/11/blog-post_8623.html Please do not waste food, do not make it dirty and throw it out .Ask those who serve
helpings that you can eat and do
not leave anything on the plate or leaf . Then give all the food you have saved
with a smiling face to
those hungry people outside .Not only God
would bless the birthday boy but
even those humans standing
outside.)
With belly of ours roaring and making
sounds
With our eyes
becoming dark due to hunger
And with our ears throbbing
due to pain of hunger
When we were
waiting outside ,
Inside those who
never knew hunger ,
Were
celebrating some one’s birthday.
Our shoulders
became jellied ,
Because of the painful ache
of our stomach,
Our head was
getting bent causing us pain,
As our back bone
without food was not able to
stand straight.
The society which tainted with
their saliva,
Whatever tastey food that was left unconsumed,
After the
great celebration of someone’s
birthday,
With great disgust
, threw
all that food out.
Our belly
thought wisely ,
That whatever was
being thrown out
Is like
nectar and was very great and we all smiled,
Before throwing out
the food,
They saw all
around again and again and noticed that,
There were many
there who were hungry like us,
And though they
knew that whatsoever food
they felt had been spoilt ,
Would be accepted
with joy by us ,
Feeling that it
was really very tastey nectar,
Because all those
who were waiting there
like us were hungry.
For all the food
that all of us got ,
We became thankful and joyous ,
And told the God that
we were grateful,
For we were all
greatly hungry
If but all those great ones had
not wasted their
food and made it Dirty,
And given to us to eat , who
had been waiting
with great hunger ,
God would have
blessed them and our
satiated hunger,
Would have prayed
to God , “God make their birthday
really happy.”
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