If You Have Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

If you have money in your pocket, the world is yours
And if you do not have, the world is not,
As money is honey and there is no honey without money,
Your family, relatives, wife and children
They are not if you do not have,
As this the key through which you may open the house,
May keep someone as a caretaker if you are not in the house.

If you have money, the world is yours otherwise is not
As money is honey and there is no life without money,
The house you live in is not
If pay not the taxes, keep not someone to clean it,
To show light at eve,
The wife is not wife,
The children not children,
All will move away from.

The house is not your house if you do not have money
To repair it,
The house will you sell it someone to get the lump sum amount
To fix in some bank
As for getting the monthly interest as for to carry it on
And you will yourself
Move out to some rented house,
Away from the town, on the outskirts of it.

Human hunger, necessity of life, is such
That your son and daughter will not be your own,
As it is difficult to carry it on,
The problems of life as such,
The problems of bread and butter, shelter and clothings,
Money has to be as for purchasing life-saving drugs,
For medical services and nursing care
And who cares without these?

There was a time when I used to mark the retired fellows
Lined, queued up near the government treasury in broad daylight,
Under the strong sun
As for getting their pension papers checked
And drawing money,
The officials used to play hide and seek
And the foolish chief minister used to keep it suppressed
As for getting interest on the accumulated money