Friday 2 May 2014

May Day


                                    Bonded by bonds of love

                                    Laboring for a better tomorrow

                                    Working at heights, frequented by the dove

                                    We’ve no time for happiness or sorrow!

                                    In others’ fields we’re the oxen

                                    Ploughing, tilling, sowing, harvesting

                                    In factories we inhale fumes toxins

                                    We waste no time in pondering!

                                    We are the laborers, carpenters, masons

                                    farmers, cobblers, tailors, workers

                                    Because of whom our economy runs.

                                    Small or big, our might matters!

                                    We vow to wipe out all disparity

                                     On such lofty aims, we set our sights!

                                    On this day, we pledge our solidarity

                                    to the cause of our (workers’) rights.
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The copyright of this poem is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan.

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