Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The Child in Us






The child in us makes us curious to know
About anything strange it finds.
The child in us loves life full of adventure;
taking failures in its stride.
The child in us has a loving heart, until it’s filled with envy and strife. 
The child in us allows our heart to well up and cry.
The child in us learns the meaning of stealing and claiming-
 With the two words: ‘yours’ and ‘mine’;
Until it realises inherent spirit of
"liberty", "integrity" and "responsibility"
the very basis of "our" life -
How life of every individual, every element
Integral to our world's("creation's") harmony or otherwise.
When the truth hurts the happiness of the child in us, it begins to lie.
The child in us revels in innocence until it learns to judge:
with punishment and reward
for the "wrong" from the the "right".
The child in us loves unconditionally-
 until it’s challenged to set limits on its rights.
The child in us revels and acknowledges nature’s creations-
 until it learns to feed its lust and greed to "thrive".
The child in us is humanity until it is taught-
 to believe in gender, creed, religious, regional and political divide.
The child in us makes us angry with the ability to find out why.
The child in us has an ego that grows when fed on fear.
When the child in us identifies itself
through comparison causing anger, resentment;
that invariably makes it believe in “Might is Right”!
The child us is lost when thrown in the arena of competition to be successful or die.
The child in us reaches out to a sulking and hurt friend with good cheer of life.
The child in us fears the fear, yet challenges itself to overcome the fright.
The child in us enjoys limitless flights of fancy, until-
It sets limits to its imaginative mind.
The child in us takes up any challenge-
For the happiness of all them who are in its life.
The child in us is our hope and love for our life.
So, the child in us will live in us, as long as we are alive.


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