This animal is there, <br />Waiting with cruel claws, <br />The teeth are sharp, <br />Always hungry and vigil, <br />Eating all our flesh, <br />Leaving us in skeletal structure, <br />This animal likes the shout, <br />As our cries are the lullabies, <br />It never sleeps, but pretends to be quiet, <br />It sucks our blood for its thirst, <br />Our sisters grow beautiful, <br />Our brothers are handsome and bold, <br />They are disturbed by this animal, <br />Whenever they go out for survival, <br />Brains are the factories of sorrows, <br />Before we reach our rice pots, <br />This animal regularly eat the last morsel, <br />Millions of people eat a meal a day, <br />As long as this animal is happy and gay, <br />where the human are careless and weak, <br />This animal is very strong and in attack mode.<br /><br />veeraiyah subbulakshmi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poverty-81/