lillies by the Gutter

The busy traffic on vizag city roads proceeds as if to convey that time never stops and life never pauses. I was walking in confusion of thoughts with nostalgia of terrible experiences I underwent at my previous job as I worked for a so called an orphanage, an organization that boasts it works for need children. My heart aches as I remember the activities that take place in routine within the boundaries of that spacious wide field where this said orphanage located. I used to wonder how those poor children are used as human defense for survival by managers of that orphanage.
Children are luckiest as long as their sponsors present in the campus as they were fed with best of the menu not to satisfy those hungry stomachs but to impress upon the sponsor. It’s a great fun for the onlooker like me to see the drama of conjuror inside that manager. The tricks are so well done that even a Hi-tech sponsor from the well developed country of the west could not resist but have to believe the show as reality, an every day happening.
The boundaries of that orphanage is by the road adjoin to a river where bathing, washing, shitting and everything dirt and holy happens with the water that flows in that river. Who ever watches, it appears as a gutter, a drain of waste.
Oh..God my head breaks and my blood pressure rises in turmoil as I recollect the happenings. The children study in school situated in the campus. . The schools that can be referred to gunnies book of world records because it is the school whose Head master never attends the office. Alas! The head master is none but the manager of the orphanage. I used to think, how this man could receives handsome salary from government and a grant from the sponsor and least bothered of his responsibility. During my stay, I found they are wonderful kids who are gifted with immense talents, can become good citizens for the country if groomed. But where are they going? How their lives are ended up after school and how many real successful stories can be found. It is really hard to find.
If lilies grow by gutter, the lilies may look very beautiful and feast to eyes but no one go near them to touch and feel the bliss because of stink and waste that envelope because they are by gutter. The loveliness of a Lilly is obviously ignored or neglected. So are the children who are in that orphanage. Their talents and wisdom is never groomed and the lives go no where but only in that so called charity as workers. The lilies by the gutter can be admired if the gutter is cleaned and looked after with care that no waste drains in it and no stink gathers by its banks and so these children can be great and tremendous characters of future world if the orphanage is set right by the sponsors.