Once a legacy <br />Pricelessly prised <br />Idli, Dosai, Vadai <br />In the pit of fall <br /> <br />Price-hiked 'Urad' <br />Consumed cost- rise <br />Gourmet in the pit of grave <br />Size reduced and weak <br />Idli, dosai, vadai <br />Off almost homes <br />Unfrequented middle-class <br />Poor went foregone <br />'Uradh'unreachably rich <br /> <br />Struggle, quarrel, rebel <br />'Uradh' soaked in tears <br />Friendly Rice consoled Uradh <br />Idli, Dosai, Vadai <br />Somewhat, somehow <br />Back home <br />On tip-toe top<br /><br />Indira Renganathan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ditching-commodity/
