What Is Joy?

What is joy
If the teacher’s cane
Comes out of classrooms joyfully
Hugging conmen and murderers!

What is joy
If the temples' doors swallow
Society’s deviants to let out masks
On masks for masks joyfully!

What is joy
If our Orchard’s nurses,
Rains chase away to woo for pay
Rain’s waters by the riverbanks!

What is joy
If our fathers and mothers
Sow their bedrooms and roses
In the courts' law lords!

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poem by Ben Banda
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