Sulabh Shauchalay

Have you ever needed to go to the loo

Just as you boarded a bus

On the way to the zoo?

Have you ever used a Sulabh Shauchalay?

Or are you one of those

Who don’t use public toilets

There are those of us

Who barge into a restaurant

Just to use their loo

But wouldn’t step into a Sulabh Shauchalay

While the vast majority of India

Defecates in the open

At least the prime minister has now

Solved this conundrum

By constructing more Sulabh Shauchalays

And provide this basic amenity

In our developing country

A Swachh Bharat

Is what I hope we see

For ourselves and our families.