Talent

Some have talent but no opportunity
Some fritter away even a rare opportunity
When talent and opportunity meet
Creativity is at its peak

Take opportunity where there is talent
And let the talent flower to the full
Those who give shape to dreams of others
A great service to mankind they do

A leader has to be always watchful
To spot the talent in its grove
And make leaders of men of talent
Whose talent bubbles and blooms

If each one were to develop his talent
Style, depth and class
What more the world needs
To charm and please the gods

Peace and satisfaction come
When talent rules the hearts
Before there is light in life
One has to struggle in dark

Discover the talent at the earliest
When the life is young and innocent
Creativity loves the child in you
And the passion for talent that works in you!

Shooting mouth

What is built over the ages
Comes to naught
By a shooting mouth
Which knows no stop

Some see in everything its good part
And some see only the others faults
Which limits them and their thoughts
And a sharp tongue spoils the rest and all

One who extols the virtues of his enemy
Disarms and sets him rethinking
Enmity then takes a backseat
Together they enjoy a ride long missed

Why hurl accusations and judge anybody
Who is as human as you be
Cuss words and invectives come back to thee
So weigh your words before you utter these

One who sees evil only
Develops an evil eye
One who cuts with his tongue
Is like a dog that barks and bites

Make friends of people as many as you like
With your heart and tongue that always woo right
Nothing touches as much and deep
As compassion and sweet words to a bruised spirit!

Perfection

Go on and do better
What you like and love
No one may care for now
But when comes your turn
The world shall take notice
And your voice shall be heard

What more you can wish
But to immerse your being
And flow with the flow
That your work brings

Stand there often
Where heart and soul sing
It is no living
When life drags against your wish

One is born with a gift
Why waste it foolishly
Everyone is made special
To do things differently

Hold on to at least one string
And waste not the opportunity
Perfection even in one little thing
Lights a life so bright as no lamp will

Go on and never give up
What satisfies and touches you deep
Self realization is the ultimate reality
Which shall permeate your being completely!

Power play

Without power real or perceived
One is a weakling who rots or sinks

Power to reproduce keeps the world young
And strengthens the bond between life and love

Subjugation of common will is a dangerous feat
Like a pressure cooker on the boil with no safety seal

Give power to your words
Or whatever you do
If you make yourself powerless
Nothing worthwhile you can do

To empower the powerless
Let that be our creed
No power can accomplish
Without any street feel

What is cut off from the roots
Like a flower plucked it withers soon

Power is in fact with the people
They part with it and become strangers

Without power nothing works
Without work nothing results
When power and people are one
Destiny is written in golden words!

Acceptance

If we were to accept things as they are
Will the strife cease
Won't it find a new pair of legs
And peace shall remain a distant dream

If we were to give in but not give up
Will the strife cease
Shall it not treat this as our weakness
And peace gets stuck in between

If we are uncompromising with oppression
And tolerate no injustice
Will the strife bite the bullet
And peace stand firmly on its feet

Acceptance is for the things
Which either don't change
Or the struggle is not worth it
There being hardly any gain

Why accept the things blindly as they are
Unless there is struggle,there is no reward
When we bow before limitations
That shows how helpless we are

Peace comes with acceptance
And strife with confrontation
Peace respects the differences
But fears not confrontation!

Think your thoughts

When one writes a thought
That arises deep inside the mind
Or just grazes past
It creates its own ripples
Big or small

One is answerable for his thoughts
When he makes them public
To convey what he wants
Or just to lighten his heart

But never judge one ever
By a few random thoughts
The context does matter
And one evolves round the clock

When people think their thoughts
They become as are their thoughts
Make your thoughts intensive and purposeful
So that they bring a change deep and meaningful

Be always careful with your thoughts
They make inroads into your heart
One may at times be left defending
What apparently is an indefensible thought

What if one admits to his faults
Does it make him in anyway small
Great men also started small
With doubting and wavering thoughts

But when they took a principled stand
Their thoughts hit the powers hard
Setting up a massive chain reaction
As they resonated in each and every heart!

Time

Time moves forward
In leisure or in pain
In sleep or when awake
In hurry or in slow lane
In hills or in plains
It needs no reason
To move at its pace

It is not bothered
It is not enthused
Never still any moment
It kicks, clicks and ticks

It is neither partial nor it bends
Neither heartless nor a friend
It drowns some and raises some
Each one in his time and den

It is immune to any credit or blame
No two moments are the same
One may extol its bounty when it comes
Or curse it at his misery, it's one and the same

Who can fight with its fury
Or stall it even momentarily
It over rides all that you think
And reduces all plans to nothing

Time is His watch
Time is His wrath
Everything comes to pass
At the appointed hour

Play foul at your peril
Each one under its watch
Nothing shall remain hidden
Time shall reveal it all !

Body and soul

Soul is not bound but free
But when it stays in a body
It has to struggle every moment
As long as the body has life in it

You live in your body
But you live in your soul too
Which is the sail of your life boat
And shall take you where it would

When body becomes one heart
And mind but one soul
The world shall be full of heart and soul
And merrily it shall soar and float

Be it a sage or a common soul
Body is given as a gift to adore
Let it become a heavenly abode
Where the soul be at peace as in heavens above

When life is all light and bright
It soars like a soul to touch the skies
And when it leaves the body in due time
The soul that remains goes beyond all heights!

Partition

That's where he was born
And grew up stout and tall
It was a good and simple life
All were so kind and warm

Partition came as a razor knife
The warmth gave way to strife
Friends and foes looked alike
People ran for their lives

Horrible and frightening were those times
Everything was left behind
With nothing or whatever one could find
Each one again started his life

As days passed, the decades passed
More and more recollections it brought
Old memories came to haunt
How can one forget that formative past

His heart is still there
Though he breathes here
He continues to live here
But his life is really there

Torn between the two worlds
He has somehow lived his life
But he remembers his old friends
Each day and night

What joins heart to heart
It is not religion but faith
What joins thought to thought
It is not wisdom but trust
And that which joins soul to soul
It is not scripture but love

Boundaries are drawn on the ground to divide
But friendships being thick and deep unite
The friends on either side may meet or not
But their friendship remains everlasting and bright!