Ugly Is Truth, Truth Ugly! Poem by AtreyaSarma Uppaluri

Ugly Is Truth, Truth Ugly!



[INTRO:
In the backdropp of the recently surfaced mega-scam of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Hyderabad. The promoters of ‘Satyam’ had floated the ‘Maytas’ group to look after infrastructure, properties and various other activities. The letters in the word ‘Satyam’ reversed, would read as ‘Maytas.’]

With 'Satyam'
Truth became a casualty.
Satyam became topsy-turvy
So Maytas came into being
To be into realty
On pillars of unreality.

'Figures are cold, stark and dreary, ' -
It's how I had figured.
But I've now realised
Figures can be figurative
And hot fiction too.

Their friendly auditors
Looked at what?
Only at the face of the figures
Not at the facts behind.
For 'auditors' only hear
And act on hearsay.
Their 'price' was high
Yet quality 'watered' down
Bringing about a 'coup'!

Within no time -
An empire built on lies
Became a graveyard of flies.

Isn't it a bit too hard
That this software giant
Has tumbled like nine pins?
Didn't the wise of the yore foresee
That ships turn into carts
And carts into ships?

Yet this is all truth, bared truth
Ugly is truth, truth ugly, - 'that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know! '
May the bard not turn in his grave!

[Jan 10,2009: : Hyderabad - 5000 056]

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