Preserved decrepit, deserted <br />Ancient monuments, <br />Protected with barbed fence <br />Where only <br />Pigeons and thieves build <br />Their nests. <br /> <br />To educate <br />Young India <br />About its heritage? <br /> <br />Migrants, <br />With dreams <br />Of better prospects, <br />Live on pavements <br />Or make shift <br />Tenements, <br />Perish <br />Due to extremes of climate. <br /> <br />Miles of wasteland, <br />To commemorate <br />Those who are dead <br />And have long gone <br />And are forgotten, <br /> <br />While the living <br />treated with scorn, <br />Rue the day <br />They were born.<br /><br />Mamta Agarwal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/preservation-or-wastage/
