“Religion is the opium of the people” said Karl Marx.
This remark will miss the mark,
For religion can cure many an ill
If with faith in God man’s soul will fill.
Some actions of great men are epoch-making;
Some others are path-breaking.
They will remain in the annals of history
Sometimes for searching posterity’s discovery.
After trouble there is often normalcy;
But normalcy should not lead to complacency,
For trouble may start again
If vigilance we do not maintain.
Many a splendid thing have men achieved
Because they strongly believed
That something inside them was the root cause
And circumstances did not make them pause.
Treating the symptom and not the cause is not the remedy;
It is equally true in spiritual malady.
The symptom may subside for the moment
But the cause will remain permanent.
A bird that soars to the skies
May boast to be the king of the skies;
But a man on a mission to the moon
Can consider it no more than a boon.
To the offender justice is always violent
For in his own eyes he is innocent;
He can fool others by such thinking
If of proof there is no inkling.
It requires a strong attitude
Rather than a mere aptitude
To reach your ultimate altitude
With the maximum certitude.
The flotsam and jetsam of society
Are wandering with a lot of anxiety
In a world that has no care for them
And may, as a nuisance, despise them.
A sorrowing mind is fixed on the past
And broods over things that have been lost.
A hopeful mind looks forward to the future
And all the good things that it can capture.
If you are fighting for a cause
Impediments will not make you pause,
For the cause is more precious to you
Than the profit or loss that comes to you.
“Justice delayed is justice denied”,
Justice denied is the citizen’s hope belied.
When the court fails to deliver justice,
Where else can he go for getting justice?
Be not be a judge and be in the dock;
He is a person that people shouldn’t mock
Better be a lawyer and make a gain
Than be a crook of a judge and earn disdain.
Can religion make us love each other
Or can it just make us hate each other?
If religion is followed in its true spirit
We cannot succumb to an evil spirit.
We must learn to live as brothers-
A maxim about which nobody bothers
When neighbours fight with each other
And increase enmity and gain no other.
Ambition has nothing but one aim-
It is a little power and a transient fame;
But it results in a fading name
And it is the end of the game.
Lament not if you fail;
Every failure you have to hail
As a fore-runner of victory
Which is from failure a recovery.