Greed Poem by Vidya Pandarinath

They dug hard and deep
Down the grabbed ground plot
To raise a selfish structure -project;
Source and resource all set
To squeeze riches out of the common lot;
Showed up bones dry and loose -
Silent and helpless, hollow grin
And stare of the bare skull
Sneak impulses and feelings dull
Of some lost pursuit and vanity null
Persisted beyond the burial recluse;
Questions simple and complex
Kept raiding the restless Reason:
Everything gained or made is lost -
The beginning and the end;
Man can smite, kill a thousand
Thousand living shapes and tear a sunder
Yet it is a helpless wonder:
How a distorted human skeleton
Could perturb all quietude.......
In time, place and purpose..! !