Changing World

What a life you've embraced!

How willingly you've learned to lie 

Doesn't bother if a friend ever lied,

How happily you've chosen to move on 

Even if you were spied!

What education you marvel!

Where kids are taught moral lessons by rote

Only for a test score.

And tutored to lie to a frail granny

To avoid holidays they had lived for - for months.

Or fake illness at school - 

When they could win hearts, or hold head high

Sharing the smiles with Rainbow House' children.

What an existence you call - warmth of life!

A life - where love doesn't meet with love,

Where everyone is busy chasing warm beds, 

Where people let go of warm hearts, 
for the dreams of warm wallets

And none has heart or a hand to wipe warm beads

Welling up behind the expecting eyes!

What a land you call your own, 

Whose leaders held their values over their lives,

Whose history has taught lessons to the world 

Whose culture the world revers.

But like everything that must come to an end, 

They too had to leave the history books and calendars 

To make way for others

Only to settle for a glass-frame - 

Tough to tell if it's a token, or broken

Does it matter if they had the glasses on?


© Sashikant Mohanty