I do not want people around me
whom I want to hate
as they dis-agree to be prudent,
I do not want people around me
who cannot love others with respect
as they have only bitterness in them;
I do not want people around me
who throw away prestige and dignity
as they have never been enlightened of it,
I do not want people around me
who do not understand their wrong evaluations
as they have failed to know their own identities;
I do not want people around me
who have evolved from poverty
and seek false pride and vanity;
I do not want people around me
who think by acquiring a novel status
they can destroy the superiority of others;
I do not want people around me
who deplore the prosperity of those
who attained it by sweat and hard work;
I do not want people around me
who bask with jealousy at other's achievements;
I do not want people around me
who are not content with their own fate
and they trouble others for their own greed;
I do not want people around me
who sell their moral to earn monies
just to become rich and competitive;
I do not want people around me
who do not realize that ancestral homes
belong to those who want to conserve it for posterity;
I do not want people around me
who want to be like hungry tigers
trying to grab the remnants of the past;
I do not want people around me
who think as they live they can spoil
the harmony of others by futile hostility;
I do not want people around me
who are children and who though educated
lack realization and perception of realities;
I do not want people around me
who are evil in their tomorrows
and wicked in their yesterdays and todays;
I do not want people around me
who lack repentance and gratitude
as I want to live by goodness and God within me
everyday, everywhere, forever more.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem