(l - Baba Amte - 1994) A Rose Without Thorns Poem by Kannan G

He loves to give light
To those deprived of sight.
Hence for them he opened
A school in his premises.
In those little eyes
Which saw no skies
But still desired to rise
He saw a fresh delight
For the fragrance of flowers
They knew not
Were red or white.
So whence
I know not
But he has brought
A breed of thornless roses
By their windows
To give them
The delight of the scent
The source of which
When they will run
Their fingers to feel
That their fingers
May not bleed,
That they may enjoy a joy
Which inflicts no pain!
Oh, is not he himself
A special breed of rose? !
A rose without thorns
That he so kindly gave
To us, to this world!