Solider

    For all the free people that still protest. You're welcome.

We protect you and you are protected by the best.

Your voice is strong and loud, but who will fight for you?

No one standing in your crowd.

    We are your brothers, sons, and fathers,

wearing the boots and carrying guns, 

we are the ones that leave all we own, 

to make sure your future is carved in stone.

    We are the ones who fight and die,

we might not be able to save the world, 

well, at least we try,

we walked the paths to where we are at

and we want no choice other than that.

    So when you rally your group to complain,

take a look in the back of your brain.

In order for that flag, you; over to fly

wars must be fought and young men must die.

    We came here to fight for the ones we hold dear.

If that's not respected,

we would rather stay here.

So please stop yelling, put down your signs,

and pray for those behind enemy lines.

    And then when the conflict is over and all is well,

be thankful that we chose to go through hell.

True Nature

 "An old man saw a scorpion drowning and decided to pull it out from the water. He calmly extended his hand to pull it from the water. When he did, the scorpion stung him. With the effect of the pain, the old man let go of the creature and it fell back into the water. The man realizing that the scorpion was growing again, got back and tried to rescue it but then again it stung him. He let go of it again. 

    A young boy standing by, approached the old man and said, "Excuse me, sir, you are going to hurt yourself trying to save the evil-vicious creature, why do you insist? Don't you realize that each time you try to help the scorpion, it stings you?

    The man replied, "The nature of the scorpion is to sting and mine is to help. My nature will not change in helping the scorpion."

A Way of Love

    There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his future doesn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she couldn't visualize any future for the both of them, so let's go their own ways there and then heartbroken, the guy agreed. But when he regains his confidence, He worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of him. 

    Finally, with all these hard work and the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company. You never fail until stop trying one rainy day, while this guy was driving: he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realize those were his girl's parents. With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to stop him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same anymore; he had his own company, car, comfort etc., He made it! Before the guy can realize, the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and he got out of his car and followed.. and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone... and he saw his paper cranes beside her. Find time t realize that three is one person who means so much to you; for you might wake up one person who means so much to you thought to mean nothing to you. Her parents saw him. He asks them why this had happened. They explained that she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle... therefore she had chosen to leave him... 

    She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if they day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him...

    Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love with all they have. 

Difficult One

 I'm Often to difficult to love. I go through dark periods like the moon and I hide from myself. 

But I promise I will kiss your wounds when they're hurting.

Even if they're in your soul, I can find them with the light in my fingerprints.

I will lead you to the river so you can remember how beautiful it feels to be moved by something that is out of your control. 

And when our dark periods match, we can breathe with grass and look at the right sky. 

The stars will remind us of the beauty in our struggles and we won't feel lost anymore. 

Farmer

    

Recently, while on a train journey, I was looking out of the train window.

    The train was passing through some villages. The sight was so beautiful-full of green fields, ready for harvest, some ploughed fields, the heart-warming sight of the men and women farmers, busy in the fields, in their noble work. That is, to provide food for the making, the birds, the animals, and other living creatures. 

    I was overwhelmed, to see the vast and unending agricultural lands, and crop fields. 

    It made me wonder, about how little do we know about the crops, the crops fields, the seeds, the harvesting, the irrigation system, and any other details, regarding the art and science of farming. 

    My heart is filled with gratitude for the farmers, or the annadata, as we call them in Hindi. It is due to their hard and relentless work, and efforts that we get the food on our dining table, the most important necessity to live and survive.

We Can't thank them enough, can we?

    Therefore, whenever you take your next bite of the food, remember to thank the farmer, from your heart.