573. I see a country in my horrible dream!

SONNET 573

By JH Sayyar

I see a country in my horrible dream!
In which bread more high than income
I find the top secret yea when I deem
O Lady I write in three words my sum
Woman’s chastity; man’s ego and blood
Of man, more cheap alas in every street
Wealth enters into wealthy like flood
In poverty three things are sold to meet
When woman be chain of the younger
When the rulers fall in wining all night
Virgins sell chastity to kill their hunger
Young sleeping with virgins losing might

Alas! My country younger are sleeping
Girls’ losing chastity, mothers weeping