East And West Poem by Praveen Kumar In Shobha Priya

The spiritual East and material West
Are why on perpetual war?
The rectitude and commercial mind
Why cannot bond and share?
Why inner values and monetary values
Fail to yield unisonal values?
Religion and science or ethics and profit,
Art and craft or depth and width,
Why pull like rivals on opposite sides
And let mankind to gruesome gulfs?

Spirit and matter of religion and science
Like night and day of the living world,
Depth and width or rectitude and commerce
Like love and labour of intimate life
Are alternate steps for concrete progress;
East and West like two sides of heart
Must pump vital fluids to save human kind,
To purge wastes and cleanse life system;
How the vital parts of the global system
Go on war and survive for long?

Why west should club to defeat the East
And prove high-tech, trade superior of all
And laissez fare, the playground of men?
Why East should group in response to the West
And club their mights to face material giants?
Arabs, Blacks, Communists or Muslims,
Buddhists, Hindus or turbulent oil-fields,
How can be lesser friends to the western hearts?
The States, Bible, English or war industry
How can be lesser equals to Eastern minds?

The light of Lord Christ spread from East to the the West,
Crude oil flows from East to Western life-lines,
The high-tech and science reach East from the West,
The foods and drugs, from West feed Eastern child;
East and West mingle for a survival on the Earth;
Then, why this divide and subtle inner war?
Why sand reluctance to accept each other?
Colours may differ, so habits and thoughts,
Conducts may differ, so systems and values,
But, man lives for the same goal in East and West.

No West survives by West itself,
No East survives by East itself;
Both should meet and build the world,
Both should blend for the progress of mankind;
West and East surfaced like day and night,
Like north and South in magnetic field,
Not to fight, but to complement
Along the course of the celestial advancement;
Stop strifes, bridge gulfs and build friendship
Like brothers, born to enlightened heritage.