Cry Of Humanity! Poem by Md. Ziaul Haque

As is protected the birdies are by the mother,
From a fuming force of nature,
Keeping them under its wings,
The feeling of Antonio for Bassanio had been similar.

Money, evil for some and bliss for many, started,
The drama both famed and notorious,
The hated Jew had the upper hand,
Lending cash to the needed.

It was the very bond, yes,
That Antonio thought futile,
Since the bringers of fortune,
Kept crawling towards the shore like serpents.

Alas! The evil spirits from the ocean,
Surfaced with a bang,
Favouring Shylock, the ruthless one in his right to cut,
A pound of flesh from Antonio's structure human.

Like a seraph from the heaven above,
Portia did carry the message of humanity,
And mercy ending up with an assumed ‘poetic justice',
That many do appreciate and others disapprove of.