ACCEPT WITH GRATITUDE
TO RETURN IN HUMILITY!
Let us not feel superior for having given,
Or feel inferior for having taken!
We grow up in life mostly receiving,
As a part of our very upbringing!
We take sustenance from our mothers,
We take knowledge from our teachers,
Companionship from our friends,
And unconditional love from our pets!
We take food from the earth, and our
very breath, -
Is the oxygen we inhale - which the earth
regenerates!
Yet do we feel obliged enough to return
our gifts?
There should be a time to take and a time
to give !
One day we must return all our obligations, -
Trough demonstrative and positive actions!
Mere lip service cannot compensate, -
Nor by shedding tears for the dead!
By caring for our elders and planting more
trees,
By our efforts to become a better human being,
And by keeping our environment forever clean!
By accepting all our blessings with gratitude,
To return them with humility as we always should!
-Raj Nandy
31 Oct 09
New Delhi
(* Inspired by an article I read recently!)
RAJ NANDY
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/accept-with-gratitude-to-return-in-humility/
