Rich hearts extend an aid promptly

Then me a frugal person, not rich,

utterly anonymous and unknown

checked in at d' New York airport,

on a trade trip to d' city of London

 

Craved for buying a newspaper,

could locate one paper vendor

but didn't carry enough change,

so that d' urge I desired to defer

 

Told that I didn't have d' change,

then he insisted, take it for free

did take d' paper hesitatingly, his

non-stop plead made me agree

 

D' incident recurred unintended,

about a couple of months later

in d' same airport I landed again,

for a paper went to same vendor

 

Oddly again, shortage of change,

he offered a newspaper once more

I denied, opposed taking it for free,

do take, I won't be at loss for sure

 

You feel cranky to accept d' copy,

but I'm sharing this from my profit

carry it with you, need not bother,

it hardly matters, literally ignore it

 

Took the newspaper and went off,

after long 19 yrs, I became famous

remembered that vendor one day,

and to find him out, begun a search

 

Found him after about 1½ months,

I asked him if he could know me?

and if at all able to recall that day,

he gave me a newspaper for free

 

He nodded, you are Mr.Bill Gates,

famed multimillionaire industrialist

I deftly remember both the days,

gave d' paper not once, but twice

 

 

I want to thank you, repay d' help

that you had offered me that time

now whatever you wish in your life,

I ought to fulfill it as my duty prime

 

The vendor gently tried to discuss,

doing so, you won't match me ever

that help I had promptly extended,

as a mere poor newspaper vendor

 

You intend to help me at present,

after you turned a multimillionaire

forthwith I realized he was right,

equated with me, manyfold richer

 

Gates unfolded it in an interview,

as quizzed by one news channel

anyone if he reckons with, richer

than him in d' world, to pl. reveal

 

D' vendor didn't wait to grow rich,

to help someone in any dire need

rich hearts extend an aid promptly,

rather than d' wealthy guys indeed

Isn't it appear very strange?

 

Got leeway for a moon trip,

they could right away learn

d' moon had no atmosphere,

no O2, a cause of concern

I'm loitering close by them,

none of them could guess

no flake of food in my tummy,

starved, hunger a big stress

Just hanker for a little food,

aspiring for no moon trip

they sense it well but act

as if do not understand it

it seems strange, isn't it?

 

View stones inside d' body

with some foremost device

inspect infants in the womb,

know d' gender, indeed nice

Can't sense my flat stomach

agony in my shrunken face

dined no morsel of a meal,

since d' last couple of days

My body, only bone and skin,

yet aren't able to identify me

in words, it's tough to narrate

my misery just unable to see

it's beyond their visual range

isn't it appear very strange?

 

Barometer tells of depressions,

where on d' earth it might rain

but cannot trace in my belly,

landfall of a surging hurricane

No gadgets to gauge density

of my hunger pain, it's strange

to caliper flow of loaded eyes,

not in any of d' machine's range

isn't it appear very strange?

 

They can see well, speculate

if a cow, dog/cat stays unfed

animal protection gang protest

if a pet/stray's ethics violated

I beg, shout at their door loud

for food, to quieten my hunger

none pays d' slightest concern,

a deliberate attempt to ignore

Animals, often awarded food,

even if disinterested to have it

to be counted as animal also,

a human awfully viewed unfit

it seems too strange, isn't it?

 

If notice tiny fading patches,

on walls of religious places

d' decaying edifices restored,

painted to d' original stances

I'm papery white, hueless,

a sapless neglected being

can't identify my distress,

their color vision, lacking

visual intellect, deranged?

I stood in the temple front,

but in my shriveled face,

see certainly no change

isn't it appear very strange?