Sometimes I wish:
I could have born
An Aborigine…
I envy the ‘Jerwas’ of
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'Hunger… which can easily Transform you An Aborigine! ' this concluding line is the soul of the poem, good insight premji...*10*
Premji, this poem reminds me of the movie Australia i saw the other day. at the end it says- Austalia has given up all effort to assimilate the aborigines with the mainstream population. wise decision, althogh late. please see the movie. your poem is insightful- hunger can transform you.10++++ i know what it is to sleep on an empty stomach, and quench the hunger pangs with water, that's when i learnt how little we need to survive. tuned to their instincts, natives understand, what we so called educated cannot decipher. Mamta