Black Money Poem by Saroj Padhi

What can white money get for you?
Not even sufficient food for your family
Forget about pleasure trips, get-togethers
Parties and presentations
Not even an expensive dress for your spouse
They say and live in utter discontent
Always hoping for a windfall
And gloss over black money
Eulogizing its potency and power
To influence people to an extent
Where nothing else can with it vie
Placing money at the ultimate high.
Raising the respect of the hoarder
The expectations of the receiver
Increasing saleability in the bazaar
Enhancing all prospects too far.
‘You are backward' they say
And shoo your ideology away
With such words where
You come to ask yourself —
If all this loud talk about
Honesty and integrity,
Cleanliness and morality
Not end up with a big,
Very big why?