THE CITY

City flourishes, city nourishes

both simultaneously

city ascends, city descends

both simultaneously.

Be it in summer,

Be it in winter

Be it in monsoon

Be it in autumn

city flourishing, city ascending.

City’s incarnations abound

city’s manifestations abound 

even while flourishing and nourishing

even while ascending and descending

city remains sick

wraps itself around with thick woollen blanket

seeks refuge from the severity of trembling fever.

Clinics  mushroom, hospitals mushroom,

multi-specialty hospitals mushroom

diagnostic centres mushroom

drug houses mushroom

and all reap a rich harvest

thanks to the sick

thanks to the environs.

Doctors go on minting money

that too thanks to the

sick, thanks to the agents of

diseases circulating through the veins of sick.

But city continues to flourish,

city continues to nourish tasting the fruits of

diseases of suffering thousands.