The Rag picker

(109) The Rag picker



Does the rag picker stop his daily routine?
Does he don the rich robe to welter in the hot sun
to pry the scum and to load the rag bag?
Does he stop biting the second half of the apple
thrown away, an extravagant waste?
Does he paint his dark coloured skin to attract
The white-coloured blonde to dilly dally with?
Does ‘ his pride’ as a paid corporation employee
Prevent him from visiting local church?
Does his wonderful, worshipful wife wander away
Slighting his meagre pittance?
Do his fond children fail to call him ‘papa’?
Does not his tattered garment befriend him
both at home and in the street, in the garbage and in cell?
Does Nature fail because man fails ?
Does creation hide because of incessant destruction?
Do the sinners stop their heinous deeds even if God descends?
Does the God disown you even if the whole world deserts you?