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You Made Me Different

Dear Child,
You made me Different
The smile you gave
Removed the mask I wore,
I thought my roughness I need it to control you,
And when wanted to thrash you with that strong arm of mine
Your eyes told a story that shuddered my whole body
And at times
With your tender finger tips
You furtively touched my hand, may be to feel how rough I am
But with that Touch
You made me Different
Deep in my heart a voice echoed: “I learnt…I learnt”
I learnt from you, how soft and mild you are
Always longing to say something, something inexplicable
Something not so easy to decode
And you became my Guru
Teaching all I couldn’t gather by sitting in lecture halls
In universities and teachers’ colleges
And annulled were all such paper qualifications
Toiled and earned year after year, one after the other
How trivial an action we pursue in life,
You became my Guru
Giving new meaning to my life;
That no other institution could award me
Even though I wrote dissertation after dissertation.
How miraculous it is to meet you my child,
In a classroom where the sound of giggles are frequent,
Where the tapping and pushing is incessant,
With your origami of paper balls, pellets and rockets
At times that passes my head with a swish!
Everyone in the staff called you nasty and damned you
They said you are so unruly and so so disturbing
BUT
You taught me, you made me to change,
To have a different Eye,
THANK YOU!
My Guru, everyone misunderstood you,
They thought that all your inventions are unwanted,
They never saw the spirit in you,
They were unprepared for that special fragrance of yours,
And so they branded you, “damn those scoundrels”,
What alienation!
You played with water and dust,
You explored the earth with its smell and heat,
You touched everything and experienced LIFE
But all were scared that No Learning is happening
They stopped you feeling the world
A flaw commonly seen in the whole world
Highly mistaken were they,
For them learning happens only within four walls:
Incarceration - Victorian prisons built for the Being
Not Any More!
A cry echoed.
I delved deep into your soul,
To listen to that spirit of dynamic energy
Where all changes happen in seconds
Liberating Life
Causing miracles before the eyes of the teachers,
That too Transformed me in toto
THANK YOU!
You made me feel Whole now,
With all that loveliness in you,
You taught me the spirit of being together,
sharing and caring for each one, the only Purpose of Life
The spirit that makes us One
Bringing forth the only Truth,
The truth of life: LOVE, the great Cosmic gift!
THANK YOU MY CHILD!

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