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Orphan On The Street
by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet → (All Poetry by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet)
Saturday, March 19, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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 I awoke with an enchanting smile in the morning on a mattress of painted silver, 

the orphan in the street wiped his face of obnoxious dirt. 
 
I entered my Spanish lavatory to expurgate my bowels, 
the orphan in the street sat down in wild grass emanating from fields of paddy.
 
I brushed my teeth with satiny floss and dental paste, 
the orphan in the street used a brittle neem stick to polish his worn enamel.
 
I washed my face with perfumed soap and lascivious cream, 
the orphan on the street used a curry of mud to clean streaks of blotted dirt.
 
I draped my persona with garments of rich denim blended with flocculent thread, 
the orphan on the street wore a soiled jute sack hanging like a scarecrow on his body.
 
I slipped my dainty toes in cushioned interiors of my velvet shoes, 
the orphan on the street left his chapped bohemian feet bare.
 
I dedicated gargantuan amounts of time trimming my bushy whiskers, 
the orphan on the street was obsessed chopping slices of tree lumber.
 
I exited for office; in the royal camouflage of my honey brown Mercedes, 
the orphan in the street traversed kilometers in the naked Sun; to reach the mill he worked in.
 
I worked in an refrigerated ambience juxtaposed with abundant flora, 
the orphan in the street perspired in sweltering currents of heat.
 
I came back home before dusk strangulated light, 
the orphan on the street arrived a few minutes past midnight.
 
I then thought I had seen enough of agony; distressing discrimination, 
took the orphan in the street within the candid comfort of my arms, 
fed him with sumptuous food; after scrubbing his silhouette with tons of carbolic, 
made him sleep in furry quilts beside me; 
with mesmerizing notes of music diffusing from the CD systems.
 
He slept like an untamed horse all night; and when he got up in the morning; there were tears dribbling down his soft cheek, 
he hadn't words to express his gratitude; the spontaneity of love he had; for the first time in his life received.

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