We walked 500 kilometres,
We are not marathon runners,
We ran only for food and family.
The walk was long,
But our minds were strong,
Hunger came along.
Hunger put us to faint;
Public watched us like saint,
We were treated as a quaint.
The going got tough;
Our foot became rough,
We felt the tiring walk was enough.
Tears poured in our heart,
Disease ripped the whole world apart,
But humankind was selfish and smart.
Public and rulers slept,
We remained helpless and wept,
Banks disturbed us with debt.
Fishes in the sea cry,
The eaters put it to fry,
Our hunger cries were buried,
Towards our homes we hurried.
Frogs rested in the shadow of a snake,
Hunger tested us during this corona quake.
Corona turned a manhunt tiger,
Killed us with its sharp tooth of hunger,
Our hearts filled with demonic anger,
Hunger kept disturbing us longer.
Our corpses were a useless exhibition,
Media wolves framed our deaths a suicide,
We had no place to reside,
Train tracks became our new home inside.
Our hunger and pains remain unheard
Ruthless rulers find our sufferings awkward
Our hunger creates leaders and robbers,
Rulers filled our society with backstabbers,
We will emerge as leaders and food feeders,
The globe will become our followers and readers.
To all living beings we will feed,
To our future generations we will become a seed,
If hunger kills a human like a crop-killing ****,
Our hands will destroy the humanimals with greed.
Coronavirus had put the globe to a halt. Migrant laborers are the biggest victims who are battling corona and hunger together. Their voices are unheard. My poems always want to be a voice of the voiceless in the globe. Migrant labor population work for their family leading the worst life. But there was no helping hand for many migrant laborers. The house owners evacuated them and asked them to suddenly leave their homes. The migrant laborers have to make long walks towards their hometowns as they had no transportation, food or accommodation. The rulers in so-called developing countries like India left migrant laborers to walk long kilometers to reach their homes. No facility was properly made and the whole country stood silently to witness their sufferings, as they had to make a long tiring walk for around or more than 500 kilometres. Many of them could not battle their hunger and thirst.
