The Common Man Of India Has Become a Beggar

The Common Man Of India Has Become a Beggar, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

209,264 items / 1,719,089 views

he had a house
gone
he had a wife
gone
he had children
gone
he had business
gone
he had friends
all gone
he curses
the day
he was born
defeated
deleted
disillusioned
outworn
people
who once
looked
up at him
today look
down on him
with scorn
his dreams
tattered and torn
when he dies
he will be picked up
from the streets
a tag on his toe
dead and gone
he wont ever come
back to earth
he has sworn


I shot him once from the back, on my way to work, but this time I saw him face to face .. the death of the common man of India .. due apologies to RK Laxman