School of life

Life is a school
for lifelong learning
no amount and kind of learning is enough
and none is a master
but for justification of life
and to live it meaningfully
one needs to be a good student
and a better public servant!

Childhood and maturity

Listen o' child
it will help you
your spontaneity and impulsiveness
are interesting to watch
but what elders are trying to tell you
that you will remember later on
childhood and maturity are poles apart
but a touch of both gives life a lively start!

Emotions

Sometimes no means not no
and yes means yes and no
the language of emotions
is strange and incomprehensible
and yet for every problem
we expect an answer
in a few and clear words!

Doctor and patient

With attentive eyes and healing touch
and by listening before they speak
a doctor heals the patient more
than a course of medicines

Treating the patient as a case
it often makes for a worse case
loss of faith in doctors in general
and the patient poorer in every way

A doctor can aid self healing in a patient
through trust,concern and reassurance
less of medicine has fewer side effects
the doctor finds success and the patient good health

A doctor needs the patient as the patient needs the doctor
the doctor has to heal the patient to become a good doctor
a doctor is a better doctor when more patients are healed
and not when a patient has to make several visits.

Inside world

Wander as far as one can go
but some day they shall come back home
to find for which they went that far
it was already there but they didn't know.

Look as much and wide eyed as one can see
but sometime with eyes closed they look within
to find such wonders which their eyes couldn't see
there is nothing beyond that doesn't exist within.

Travel as much as one can possibly do
but exhausted at times they're confused within
to find how little they can cover with their feet
while imagination focused within goes far and deep.

The effort one puts in to master the things of the world
at the expense of working on the enrichment of the soul
they may feel exalted in the materialistic world
but end up poorer than who work on their spirit and the soul.

Rich and poor

The poor have worries
and nothing much to hang onto life
for what can it offer they think
but prolonged poverty.

The rich have much to worry about
to hang on to life somehow
to keep their wealth safe and sound
and be in limelight anyhow.

Into rich and poor
wealth divides the world
arrogance comes with wealth
and the poor feel powerless.

Neither rich are at peace
nor the poor can live in peace
wealth is not the culprit
but the greed of the rich!

Inspiration

Inspiration does it come from nowhere
or one has to work hard to get inspired.
When hard work leads to nowhere
and one takes a break from work,
like a bolt the inspiration strikes
but does it elude the idle minds.
From wherever it comes
and to whomsoever it does
it takes hard work to make it work!