TODAY -
The Sky is sure a roof
Sanatombi Angomcha *
Have you ever imagined yourself sleeping under the naked sky watching the stars and the moon? Sounds great and romantic right?
Well, what about sleeping every night under the sky?
A strict No I know.
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Well, it's not fun for those who don't have a shelter and loiters around here and there seeking shelter under the sky. Poverty is a sin and to die poor is a heinous peccadillo (ahem). I just wrote something about Plan India all about helping the poor and needy children and as usual I wrote out my heart in the copy (sigh). If we give a thought then being poor is something very itching for the soul. Sigh, that we have not been poor and (fingers crossed) may we never be poor in a way we don't desire to.
I came across a funny but not humorous joke in my community. There was this campaign of eradicating poverty in my state (Manipur oops I mean Money poor). Some whacko youths came up with a copy of how to eradicate poverty. Well, there was a means... to eradicate poverty one could lend a murdering hand to kill every poor people in the state so that only rich or mediocre people stayed back. It was not at all a funny idea to feast the mind but it sure pinched my thought. I earnestly thought that out of extreme poverty some poor fellow would prefer a rich death ASAP. Well a rich death can be a shot of a bullet from an expensive gun (huh). Not funny I know!
All the while I am literarily babbling here and guess what if someone asks me what have you done for someone in need... all I have got to say is - I have conceived the idea of helping out the poor and needy but beyond that I think I have zero idea what I can do. Maybe I can just write another boring / interesting article for a client like Plan India. But I do have plans to help out the poor and needy people in a different way in the near future which is still a clandestine for me.
Amen for the day!
* Sanatombi Angomcha contributes regularly to e-pao.net. The writer can be reached at eben(dot)poktales(at)gmail(dot)com . This article was webcasted on March 19th, 2009.
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