The Price Poetry by Murlidhar Translated by Jam Jamali

THE PRICE

Every influential individual,

every leader,

and every person in power,

bears a tag of price.

If,

he does not, receive it,

he makes hue and cry,

and shouts a nonsense.

When received,

in a wink of eye,

and in a jiffy,

he alters his stand,

and to him

everything starts looking okay.

In sooth!

every powerful person

has hung a tag

of his worth!

Poetry by:             Murlidhar

Translated by:     Jam Jamali