HAPPY NEW YEAR, THROW ME A PENNY

HAPPY NEW YEAR, THROW ME A PENNY


Happy New Year I wish you all,
Enjoy and make merry.
Hold arm in arm and drink and dance,
Let there be no worry.

But while you ride high in the sky,
Spare a thought for the scum
Of earth, clad in their stinking rags,
Who dare not, near you, come.

But even from a distance you
Can glance at me and tell
That a penny thrown by you might
Buy me my next morsel.

I’m weak in body and spirit,
Bit by hunger and cold.
Even to make my begging round,
I am rather too old.

Yet I harbor a hope in my
This weather- beaten chest:
That I would have mercy of those
Who are clad in their best.


• Written in abcb, 8-6-8-6 format

* Initially written as entry 397502 in the book "MISCELLANEA" 


M C Gupta
7 January 2006