Freebies Bring No Smile Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

Our politicians used to say,
Let us see the God,
in the smiles of poor and destitute.

I ask them a simple question,
How long we have to be poor,
to see our Gods in our smiles.

We do not need subsidies,
we want opportunities,
to prove ourselves,
to prove our qualification,
to prove that we are human,
to feed our children,
to provide our families.

Take away the subsidies,
Give us the opportunities,
to toil on our own soil,
instead of digging,
the opportunity of another,
Who may be as poor as we are.