Poverty's punishment It is indeed an alliteration of 'Ps' Because poverty punishes with impunity And though i didn't commit any punishable crime My first cry at the labour ward was at the crack of poverty's cruel whip Did i say labour ward? Forgive me , but it was at home, In a thatch roofed mud hut which buzzed with mosquitoes at night Because poverty the ruthless tyrant dictated to my parents where i was to be born Home ! , he ordered Not hospital No wonder i ended up an epitome of all these disorders :Rickets,kwashiokor, night blindness and stunted growth Now i know that the simplest cure to all these was to have been born in a common 'hospital' But poverty denied me this 'cheap' cure He fractured my femur and gave me that horrible gait,which pays me with rejection no matter how hard i chase acceptance He stole all my food and drove me to retarded growth and diseases Worst of all he separated 'them'