A little lost am I today,
Looking at this wide canvass of life.
There are dowry deaths,There are children laboring,
Murder for gains and political assaults.
I see toiling old age in the hight of summer,
I see women fighting for a pot of water.
I see children begging prodded by hunger.
I also see lots of goodies hanging in baskets in the shop window too.
Justice?What is its second name?
Equity?If law had been equitable,
Will there be so many on its corridors?
The black coats will be on pegs then.
So a little lost am I today,
Reading the papers,watching news.
But something wakes up in me,
Saying it has been there,this inequity,
It is but our duty to make what mite we can,
So that a day dawns for some one,
With a little less struggle.
Yes,this life is very wide canvass,
But you can have your color too.
I smile, and I am no more lost.
Jayamala.
Blogs That I Follow.
- http://navallanga.blogspot.com
- News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
- Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
- News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
- Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
- Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.
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