DIWALI WISHES 2017

RESOLVE- POEM ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD TEACHERS' DAY

RESOLVE

Strange are the moments when people show distrust in us,

Bizarre are the ways with which people share their own fear and insecurities as ‘ours’ in a gush.

This distrust, fear and insecurities is the result of their life experience,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE not to own it as this is the part of their weariness.

It is the time tested principle of our universe,

That construction begins only after destruction.

It is this creative destruction which is often required for re-construction,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE not to be the part of this worldly congestion.

The everyday phenomena experienced by us is inadequacy,

For we must appreciate this as it only drives us for invention and discovery.

What appears to be the horizon, is nothing but a child fiction,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE not to be torn out by such common diction.

At times we must break our monotony and introduce dichotomy,

Imprudence will broil if we wait for people’s approval once our heart and soul are in perfect harmony.

What people show us as a waste, is indeed a challenge for us to see as a chaste,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE not to be in haste to out rightly discard it as your taste.

Who can teach us the way of human behavior better than the nature,

For the same Moon is often criticized for its size and stature.

The fault is, neither of critics nor of moon,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE not to make their limited perception ability as your own.

We are born free with all emotions intact, irrespective of religion, caste, sex, creed and class,

The point worth noting is the second’s hand from where the child’s expressions become a mass.

It is the point when he looks for approval for his natural expressions,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE not to be affected by any disapproved gestures.

We all are Universe within, born free with a zeal for life,

Must needed is to ensure that pessimism never pervades in this strive.

Unbound all shackles that hold you back,

Explorer Oh Explorer! RESOLVE that you are in this world to unpack your sack.

© DAKSHA SHARMA 2017

THE CONDUCT- POEM

THE CONDUCT

Through this poem, I intend to share the thought that often it is said that words are powerful but as per my observations, I have sensed that silence is more powerful than the words and even more powerful than silence is the conduct of a person which indeed makes his existence immortal.

-       Daksha Sharma

Words are indeed powerful,

For they make the person immortal.

In absentia, words make a person’s presence felt,

And in his presence, they make his presence more articulate.

Right they are, who say that a person never dies if he is alive in the memory,

For we must understand that ours is a soulful existence which cannot be calculated in a century.

But more powerful than the words is the silence,

And those who understand your silence know your heart’s cadence.

However, it raises a pertinent question herein,

Those who can’t speak have a mortal existence it means.

The response unfolds itself in innumerous ways,

Like the Lotus blossoms fully in the sun’s rays.

And indicates from all possibilities,

That more than the words, the conduct has the gentilities.

Conduct includes one’s behavior, actions, intent and attitude,

And that is the reason they say;

It is not your aptitude but your attitude that decides your altitude.

Thus, the analogy is drawn with irreversibility,

That it is the Conduct which retrieves human existence with immortality.

© DAKSHA SHARMA 2017