A young man in the tourist town of Ooty circulated his Tamil poem today, highlighting the plight of widows and physically-challenged persons, to the hundreds of visitors to the ongoing flower show.

In the poem titled, ‘Katchikku Varaadha Kadambam’ (the flowers that doesn’t come to show), M. Prabhu says that though lakh of persons visit and appreciate the flowers, which live hardly for a few hours, nobody bothers about the lives of the hapless widows and physically-challenged persons.

While the tourists and locals were happily enjoying the beauty of the flowers, these widows had to stand alone, wearing white saris, in this cruel society, he says.

Similarly, the physically-challenged were also made to stand in separate queues, showing the discrimination in the society, Prabhu says.

Through these verses, he wanted to promote widow remarriage and fair treatment for the physically challenged persons, he says.

Prabhu had made one lakh copies of his poem and distributed them among the visitors in and around the Government Botanical Gardens, the venue of 120th Flower Show.