Life is Expensive

Life is Expensive

How to push it further, now life is so burdensome

No brother, it’s not our cup of tea to live such an expensive life

Flour, rice cost so much, pulses and cooking oil are no less

So expensive are essential groceries and medicines, how to save this life!

You might hear someday that the life has hanged itself to death

No brother, it is beyond us to live such an expensive life

Hospitality has become expensive, so have the clothes and school fees of children

Poor are facing the pangs of hunger even in their sleep

Life is spent in removing pricks and thorns of poverty

No brother, it’s not our cup of tea to live such an expensive life

It seems like there is a fire in bazaar, like an electric current is passing through things

Those who were trusted by the people are keeping mum

The lies of the leaders have changed the life for worse

No brother, it’s not our cup of tea to live such an expensive life

Hoarders and profiteers are running government of their own free will

Poor people are bearing the brunt of inflation

Life kept waiting for a cheaper time

No brother, it’s beyond our capacity to live such an expensive life

Life’s wheel is spinning on the support of pensions and money orders

Nobody is thinking about those miserable ones who are unemployed

Life has worn again a tag that of helplessness

No brother, it’s beyond our capacity to live such an expensive life

N.S. Negi

Translated by Dr. Deepak Bijalwan

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