One of my cousins runs
a family grocery business.
If he sells the sugar,
in higher price
saying there is no supply,
customers will still give
120 in place of 1o0 rupees.
No boss, no toil,
easy earning.
He barely passed high school,
graduated from village college
with bribes generous.
And he is a millionaire.
His father boasted
at my schoolteacher father’s funeral.
I am a PhD with double master’s
in biosciences,
biofilms, DNA sequencing,
research, publishing.
My youth went in grind,
intense academics, in stress.
Now parenting takes my time,
I can't pursue a regular job
I get cents for flexible writing.
I will remind myself
as I go into another year.
Life is not fair,
effort is not always rewarded,
it's snake ladder game.
Wagon wheel of destiny
keeps on rolling,
no point in comparing.
Whatever comes our way,
we have to find meaning.
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Seema Patel
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I write on nature, health, parenting, creativity, gardening, social issues.
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