Love & Those Who Write On Love Poem by Angelina Pandian

Have you not loved?
And have you not longed,
Is it wrong to write on love?
A person well fed thrice
With no worry of tomorrow
Will not think of food
But, the one starved and famished
Standing outside a party hall
With a broken empty alm bowl in hand
Will have nothing else to think of!
Not all who write on love,
Have been favoured by love
If song birds sang
Only for a purpose
We the losers would be
The beauty of a Dolphins leap
The wag of tail of the dog at your feet
Should all be able to evoke
Feelings of joy and sympathy
It is only when you feel love
You can also be sensitive
To the need of those who stand
Helpless around you
Children orphaned because of us
Yes our blind eye towards war
Made him a homeless orphan be
The deranged naked beggar
Who does not care what he chews
We who are a part of society
Did not care to care for him, maybe
I do not know from where they come
The women with babies in their hand
The blind and handicapped men
At each signal as your car stops
Thronging like you were a Messiah
Coming not for healing or relief
But, just for some paltry coin.
The ills of money – Money it causes
Poverty for many when hoarded by a few
It is the root cause of all evil
Men are led to murder, lie and sell
All for the sake of mere money
Which will not accompany you
When here your life is done
And you leave for other shores.
It is only a heart still warm with love
Though hurt still not turned bitter or cold
A heart which yearns for brotherhood,
Tolerance and peace and feels the hurt
And pain of human kind
Which strives by its sad and lonely songs
To remind each man and woman too
To love and live in harmony
It is only love which can lead a lion like a child
So do not chide love nor those
Who write on love requited or not
For it is a happy and loved heart
Which can, out of the overflowing joy
Truly love with a love with no barriers at all
Or ask for any recompense other than
Peace, harmony and joy for all!