by B. R. GOWANI
(for ZKG)
a day can be sunny, cloudy, long, short, rainy, snowy, happy, sad
or be gloomy, cheerful, festive, mournful, miserable, heavenly …
or a Special Day, nay, a Very Special Day
such a day is June 8th
not very long ago, just in the near past, one score and eight years ago
Nature decided to endow Mother Earth with a great soul
a soul with …
egalitarian values, humanistic bent, intellectual faculty
anger being absent, voice with softness, motto of pluralism
inclined to creative arts, destined to cause something great
greed stays away from this being
even as the welfare of others is in-built
the capitalistic rate race couldn’t infiltrate
the charitable nature
this is the great day
in not advertising or celebrating this day
the preference is to ponder issues not unique to this day
but not unimportant
our planet has a titanic paucity of such creatures
else, our globe would have been an edenic abode
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com