Do you see someone Smiling at you?
May be someone is shedding a tear
In some inexplicable pain.
Do you feel it??
The tender hand that shines your shoe
Or the table of the street side cafe
That you just sipped your Masala Chai at -
Munching hot samosas and giggling with your friends!
Do you notice the callouses on the hands
That need to actually practice Alphabet?
The plea of a dainty tone
High pitched, almost like a cry!
Begging for food -
Or just begging you to buy
The magazine, the trinket bag
Or the bunch of greens!
Do you hear? Or do they fall
Into a deaf ear
Stuffed with the plug-ins
of your sleek iPod??
You may feel you are too little
To actually bring about a change -
To lend a hand or an ear
Or just flash a smile to
mock that tear!
Feel not that you can't change
For Change comes
Slowly, surely
Like the seasons -
From Cold to warmth!
Once you learn to
Stop and see
Or hear or feel -
You start to heal!
Stop to notice - to step out of yourself
Your selfish self!!
You'll probably touch a life
Save a childhood
Or Just
Spread a hope!
Very thought provoking idea, we just slip our mind/body away from these as soon as we sip our drink in full. We distance ourselves and live in an imaginary world of blissfulness and pray god that everything good should happen to me and only me.
ReplyDeleteThe only way we can change this attitude is to practice/show our children how a helping hand could make a life feel blissful and meaningful to the holder and beholder.
Teach the kids to share/give to the needful and not needless.