Define, Refine and Redefine??

This funny thing about definitions
Elevates some demote some
Draw lines where there are none

Pluto till yesterday was a planet of great fame
Now not even a name
Just a number
Like a million more numbers

‘Pluto’ will be what it is
What it always ‘was’

Never mind the miniscule man
Who defines and ‘redefines’
Nature
Nature is beyond the grasp of definition

A mystery to be tasted and relished
Every moment like a toddler does
In wonderment and gratitude
Not solved and resolved

‘Pluto’ is
Just as the Truth is

Never mind the million definitions
Interpretations

Of the Truth that is

Respect

Some command yet others demand
The one who demands is one
Engulfed in fear of losing of variant hues
Of money, power, name and fame

He that commands respect
Is but a mirror that reflects
One speck of the Love Infinite
That melts all fears
Respect born of love
For One so blessed

Words can kill

Words are dealier than venom
Can kill in a matter of hours

Wounds inflicted on the body heal
Wounds inflicted on the mind leave deep scars

A bright and brilliant child's life snuffed out
By careless words from a so called 'teacher'
Who couldn't deal with her own frustations

Performance is not the end all
be all of life

There is a future for all
The big and the small
The short and the tall
The smart
and the not so smart

Children are gifts
To be nurtured
Not racehorses geared
To win and only win

Not assets to show off
By parents and colleges

Its truly sad that things
have come to this end

This is the peril of a Goal- driven
Society
where only results matter
no matter what

(I write this for Anup Bopaiah a 16-year old student of Christ Jr. College Bangalore who ended his life when humiliated and threatened in class by a teacher. )