In The Network Of Ideals Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam

Seeing the religious preachers
Spreading superstition in the name of faith
And devilish nature in the name of God
And destroying humaneness
In human-beings
I am engulfed by fires of disquiet
But am not able to become Adi Sankaraacharya [1]

Observing the selfish leaders changing citizens into barbarians
In the name of caste, religion, region, language and ideology
I am shaking with anger
But not able to become
Another Chaanakya [2]

Noticing fellow humans in pains of poverty
And with lack of minimum amenities
And people without a square meal a day
Who are satisfying their hunger with tears;
My heart is melting and wrenched
But
I am not able to become The Buddha [3]

The reason for my inability
Is
I am
I am

[1]. Great Indian spiritual teacher of Advaita Philosophy (Non-Duality of Individual and Divinity) and religious reformer
[2] Great Indian theoretician of politics and economics
[3] Great Indian teacher of enlightenment around whose experiences and teachings Buddhism has been flourishing.