Why (not) to become a Poet?

Counting the Waves…is it economically significant?

The ‘benefit’ of becoming a poet…

never ask, because it is out of a realisation

that finding another path also is equally non beneficial 

as long as I don’t find my self out and

don’t begin the change which changes the world.

Turn back and see, societal progress is often represented in 

inverse proportion to the manual work it does,

direct proportion to the luxuries it has

and some exponential way to its Carbon foot print

Alas! no mention of values and those not easily encashable knowledge

Right,  a poet wont offer the comfort of a luxury car in the first instance

Poetry can’t craft Workers who will be paid in millions

It is never intended to devise a formula to predict ups and downs in the sharemarket

Then… it can only tell that ‘In a world led by Market Economics,

The worth of every human being is decided based on his relative price’.

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