I Am Not Rich Poem by Gajanan Mishra

I am not rich,
How can I fly!

Day by day
The gap is increasing
Between the poor
And the rich.

I am poor,
My words have
No value.

Since poor I am,
I am a burden to them.
Even I am a burden,
To my wife,
The service holder,
And she expresses her
Thought in words and actions.
I am a burden to
My sons and daughters
Staying separately with their
Family members elsewhere.

I have no income,
I am a diseased person
With old age.
I have no right to live,
Please consider my case,
And let me go from this place.
I want to honor nature,
And the law there for.

I am a mere creature,
But why they all
Think me as an element
Of danger?