Failure Is An Orphan Poem by narayana aghalaya
Failure Is An Orphan
After the Ariyalur accident*
Shastriji didn't dally one moment
with him, forthwith, buck had to stop
he resigned - but what about present crop?
as one's charge one ducks
merrily passing the buck;
as one relies mostly on luck
one's good deeds, if any, will get unstuck.
as bodies of innocents pile-up
from deep slumber one doesn't wake up,
one's conscience doesn't stir,
one will surely end up a smaller sir.
beware of acts of omission,
for, dustbin of history surely beckons;
it is choc-a-bloc with the who is who
with them at leisure one can rue.
Two years back, in 2017, over hundred newly born children died in hospitals in UP due to lack of oxygen cylinders. None resigned or took any moral responsibility. Health Minister was Sidharth Nath Singh, grandson of Lal Bahadur Shastri.Even today he is Health Minister in UP. Obviously morals and ethics are not hereditary.
Today after every man-made calamity, where hundreds of people die or lose their homes/property, none of our leaders appear to take any moral responsibility; instead they try to find scapegoats among officials.
Lal Bahadur Shastri, in 1963 became Prime Minister of India till his death in 1966.
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