Monstrous Hunger

What an irony of life,

Work or else stomach goes on strike.

How a child can study,

When hunger makes things fizzy.

If hunger is eradicated in school,

Then we shall have efficient student’s pool.

Attendance then shall be full,

And no one shall remain dull.

All concentration will be on future,

And no worries for diet structure.

If we continue to do our bit,

Then hunger will loose from wit.

Offering helping hand is our duty,

Rest shall be taken care by Almighty.

Blogadda & Akshaya Patra came long way,

To keep the classroom hunger away. 

Let writing do it’s magic,

Leaving behind numbers and logic.

This post is not for contest,

Nor to be first or highest.

It’s just a good deed,

Where a child gets feed.

If one post can feed a child,

Then let’s write to make hunger mild.

Maximum posts can be number five,

By doing it, let’s do high five.

Then no tiny hands shall ever wander,

Once we eliminate classroom hunger.

I wish to see a healthy world,

No teary eye and restless soul.

Why not each day in life,

Make a child smile and glide.

Little footsteps have lot of dreams,

So why not assemble every gleam.

When this strive for hunger end,

Threatening worries will surely bend.

 If we all together strive for change,

Hunger's address has to change.

Monstrous Hunger shall get a defeat,

And it will be a wonderful treat.

This poem is part of noble initiative from Blogadda and Akshaya Patra to feed a child against each post published under this theme. I request all the bloggers to make a difference in child’s life by at least writing a single post. If writing can bring change then lets be part of the change. Let we all together defeat this monstrous hunger from many lives.

All you need to do is pen down your thoughts on theme BlogToFeedAChild, with minimum 300 words and link with Blogadda. I am sure many have done it and others shall soon do it to make the difference.

AuraOfThoughts also submitted a fiction story Difficult Decision on same theme. View it here Fiction - Difficult Decision.

This post is dedicated for Blogadda intiative to feed a child through a post and I am going to #BlogToFeedAChild with Akshaya Patra and BlogAdda.

@Sonal

Difficult Decision

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It was fine sunny morning, and the time when Kriti was sipping a cup of tea, while reading newspaper. She had finished her morning chores, and Kamu her helper was washing utensils, when suddenly she heard; “I want to , I want to Maa”. Kriti folded newspaper and took her cup to walk to backyard where she saw Vishnu crying and pleading to his mother.

“I will go to school today Maa, I can’t be at home.” said Vishnu in a shivering voice.

“Why not, I will myself drop you there; you won’t miss the school” replied Kamu with a heavy heart.

“That’s good Kamu, your son is so passionate about the studies, and one day he will become a successful man.” Kriti said. She gave Vishnu a packet of Nataraj Pencils and patted him.

“Oh! Dear you are having high fever”, Kriti felt the temperature while patting and made him sit; and called out Kamu”. Vishnu is not well and suffering with a high fever”.

“Yes madam I know that, since yesterday he is like that.” When he came back from school he was feeling low and fell asleep without speaking a word. When he woke up he just accompanied me insisting to go to school in this condition, expressed Kamu wiping sweat off her face.

“Did you give him any medicine? And consult the doctor so that he may recover fast” Kriti suggested; “for now take this medicine and take rest Vishnu.”

After giving him medicine she asked him to sit while his mother completes cleaning work. She searched for remote control and switched on her TV. While she was juggling between the channels,Vishnu who was observing everything softly spoke “Madam Doordarshan is the only channel I wish to see, so I don’t need a remote control too.”

“Maa make it fast I want to go school early, I don’t want to miss”, cried Vishnu to his mother Kamu who was busy completing the chores.

“How on earth you will go to school? You are not well you need rest dear”, Kriti said with a surprise. She thought how her kids put forth silly tantrums to take leave from school and this boy though not well is not ready to miss the studies.

Next day Kamu called up Kriti to inform her that she will not be able to come to work as her son is still not well.

“I told you he needs rest don’t send him to school.” said worried Kriti.

“But Madam how will he take medicine then? Doctor warned that the medicines should not be taken empty stomach.” dishearten Kamu replied.

Kriti didn’t understand her point. Later while watching ad of Akshay Patra she recollected what her maid had told her. She understood that it is not the hunger of knowledge that drive these kids to school it is the hunger of stomach. Her eyes were filled with tears when she came across the fact that a kid only eats properly at the mid-day meal provided by school  and that’s why could not miss school.

Kriti always used to gift stationary items to Vishnu whenever he accompanied her mother but from now on she thought of changing it. The next time when Vishnu accompanied her mother Kriti made sure to give him a packet of ParleG Biscuits.

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”― Mahatma Gandhi

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• This post is dedicated for Blogadda intiative to feed a child through a post and I am going to #BlogToFeedAChild with Akshaya Patra and BlogAdda.

And this post is also a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

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@Meenal