Resolution

Love as a balm for these troubled times; love as a conscious strategy for neutralizing hatred and apathy

Resolution

Let us put back

A smile today/morrow:

On the crying face

Of a matted hair street child,

Wandering in unlit alleys

With urban ghosts;

A gentle smile back on---

A cracked face of a man

Doddering in the smelly shelter,

Like a maple tree leaf

Soon to be detached;

Let us call a brave colleague

Recently downsized, downcast

Sitting alone, in the milling crowds,

On the corner seat, away from your

Triumphant gaze, co-travelling

In the local train, crushed like the

Coolie under heavy weight,

And poor guy,

Seeing with unseeing eyes

The rolling barren landscape

Of pencil-thin towers and crowded malls,

Where programmed and

Crazy middle-class shops;

Let us

Comfort an inconsolable

Young widow, three kids,

Of a decorated war veteran,

Who returned home

In a black body bag,

To a hero’s welcome

In a silent suburb,

And sobbing home;

Let us, above all, resolve:
We should not hurt anybody

With our WORDS

That cause injuries

More fatal

Than enemy guns!