The brother of Albert Nobel was dead.
All newspapers by mistake had published
The obituary of Albert Nobel.
It went like ‘the merchant of deaths is dead.’
A great shock to him, who minted huge wealth
By selling dynamites for the use in war.
The shock changed him, who made over his wealth
To a noble cause: The Nobel Prizes
Kalinga War shocked Emperor Asoka
When he saw the tears of the war victims.
The shock changed him, who followed Buddhism,
And took a vow to wage no war, no killings.
The Cancer in me gave me a great shock,
Which made me quit smoking of five decades.
A shock can touch one’s subconscious mind
And alter one’s attachment to a thing.
05.04.2014
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem