System, People And Family Poem by Savita Tyagi

System, People And Family

Give them a system
And give them a family
What will they choose?

Change the scenario a bit
Give them a system
And give them people
What will they choose?

System is Dharma* in workable form
Unless eternal changeable is its norm
Last it can centuries in modified form

Family is made up of human beings
Living breathing channels of life
Filled with emotions and thinking mind

System is corporation in sentient
A computer program in hard drive
A book of rules and code of ethics

A system not competing with changing lives
Tethered and unviable to innovative minds
It's ink fades upon antiquated sheet of time

Incompatible with new ideas
Fanatic defenders of old system
Become abuser of it's citizens

System run with people impersonal
Without empathy for collective welfare
A mere body without heart and soul

Harsher the system faster it's destruction
Dissatisfied people burn it to ashes
Upon the tomb of old new law flourishes

Unlike system a family founds itself
On love and care for each other
Adopts to changing times quickly

Family a loose unit of individuals
Values its members more than
Laws of impersonal system

The close bond of emotion takes root
From the time of child's first touch
Of smiling mother's sweet breast

It blooms upon father's strong shoulders
Flowers under warmth of sibling hands
And spreads its fragrance in community garden

A system must protect and behold
What a family creates and offers
To nurture the finest of social order.

Note: The word Dharma is used here expressing a collective way of life in any society.