D’ real potentials remain hibernated

Offer some funds to buy food,

he earnestly urged the owner

had no food for last one week

any time might die of hunger

Shopkeeper, at first hesitant,

d' appeal he wished to ignore

aware of this kind of theatrics

a usual chore of the beggars

After a while, his eyes haply

caught some shining article

didn't hesitate to drag it out,

 the poor guy's begging bowl

Refusal of alms is understood,

but why snatch his only bowl?

d' destitute in an empty stomach,

such cruelty is not called-for

Hauled a piece of sandpaper out

and started scratching d' bowl

the panicked beggar pleaded

to refrain, not to spoil it at all

With folded hands, he solicited,

it's fine if u don't offer a thing

give my only bowl, back to me

deface not d' valued belonging 

Since how long have carried this,

when it came to your possession?

It's from d' day, I remember, but

what for d' unwanted question?

But tell me, how do you get this?

I want to listen to d' entire story

My father gave the item to me,

noted in  my grandpa's  inventory

A businessman presented him,

inferred with it to make a living

Such a noble offer made, but he

asked to beg with d' valued thing?

The ignorant beggar kept mum

did not know the exact answer

d' outer layer of d' bowl was gone,

sandpaper scratching was over 

His eyes glittered very brightly,

face vivid, and he looked bold

he murmured and next shouted

as I guessed, its 24 carrot gold

D' beggar got utterly shocked,

begging since three generations

he, his father, grandfather and

no hint of d' prized possession

Even if you don't offer anything

it is fine, but I'm a poor person,

this bowl is all that I have, give it

back intact, with no damage done 

Value of whatever assets they had,

to realize own strength, got late

could not use own wealth in time,

all came to d' world as a clean slate

 Ignorance, inhibition, ego, hatred

betrayal, dishonesty, greed, desires

on the pellucid pot's lucid surface,

settled got deposited layer by layer

Transformed the true pious nature,

life pulls on through twists and bends

ailments under-diagnosed, ill-treated

real potentials remained hibernated