Voice Of Heart Poem by Devanshu Patel

Voice of my Heart:

O my self, Listen.
Various kinds of people are there on this earth but they are alike.
Though their bodies are different in colors or size
But the earth or the substance, with which they are made of, is the One.

O my self, please don't be kind
To those who is healthy and have all the limbs i.e (not handicapped)
Because your kindness will lead his mind to beggary.
O my self, God is pouring the rain of His love
On each of us and everywhere in all directions.
But if you wander with umbrella over your head then…..

Or if your body gets wet but not the heart, then what?
O my self, then you are with ‘a heart of stone'
Like ‘a lotus in water.'*
Oh my self, please listen to all but don't follow any of them.
Listen to all whatever your heart thinks
Fair and good, and follow them all.

If you have got your body white
But the heart is very black, then you have got nothing.
Like corrupted politicians in India who are wearing spotless KHADI
clothes.
(Khadi means Hand woven loincloth
(a lotus in Water, a phrase used in India...'jalkamalvat' not affected with...like lotus leaves don't hold water)

© Devanshu Patel
Chicago
6/4/2018