Do you understand this Petrarchan Sonnet? I don't get it.?

Devo

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I know it has something to do with east Indian culture, but I am struggling to pick up the big picture. Is it just hard to understand or does is not make any sense?

Brahmin's Vedas decide their livlihood
Palms open, coiled fingers raised to lips
Babies sullen faces grasped on hips
Ingrained Caste decree, dreamers never could
Alongside the railroad squalid clothed stood
A mans bodily toil, scuffed finger tips
Heads rest on concrete the drifters sweat drips
Kinships ill core grape stained mouths no good

Hearts that bleed compassion leap from sap chests
breaking free cage minds, stuck in hapless pasts
Wet the seedlings with kisses loving bond
puff the ember lit, rouse Dalit's protests
nourishing brain victuals to all amassed
Nudge the shooting sprout withal gentry fond
 
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