Plough and Sickle

In the Golden field one grain of wheat
Outraged with its sense of defeat
Cried out at the top of his voice
"Plough and sickle were not my choice!
I neither brought life, nor am the killer;
Who was the tiller? Who the miller?"

© Shahriar Shahriari
Vancouver, Canada
October 8, 1997

Inspired by one of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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