Ignite the lamp of humanity


For every wish of goodness that diffused from your soul- praying to
God to bless everyone with happiness, bliss, peace and immortal love-
even as your friends and foes virulently abused you,

For every bountifully fresh sapling that you planted into barren soil;
and all those others that you dreamt of sowing in fathomless fecund
landscapes of mud,

For every handshake of yours with complete strangers; whom you
embraced in your times of happiness and crippling duress alike- for
being a part of the same Universe that you lived in,

For every song of oneness that emanated from the innermost realms of
your heart- disseminating the message of a benign existence- even as
living beings all around deliberately turned into sadistic parasites,

For every droplet of your blood that you donated for your fellow
beings in distress- without worrying about your own bones which had
started to bizarrely display more than your skin,

For every helping hand that you lent to those without sight to cross
the cacophonic buzzing street- leaving them to their destination in
spirit of undefeated humane brotherhood,

For every morsel of your food that you shared with all those starving-
and then miraculously felt your very own stomach to be replenished
without a grain- but solely with the wand of selflessness,

For every wounded animal on the street that you tried to resuscitate
with your love; when everyone walking beside presumed it to have
attained its veritable grave,

For every negatively nagged comment upon you that you transformed into
an optimistic opportunity- accommodating one and in your diminutive
dwelling- which was palatial with your love,

For every trail of yours that unflinchingly fought the most wretchedly
asphyxiating of odds- just to ensure that the truthful voice of every
God-gifted existence prevailed,

For every morbidly stagnating piece of canvas that you splashed with
myriad colors and hues of a burgeoning existence- as the planet around
you unraveled in its most inscrutably magical shapes and forms,

For every unnecessary complexity of a frazzled existence- that you
solved with such child-like ease- with the universal quintessential
elements of symbiotic existence,

For every inconsolably wailing infant that you hugged close to your
heart- lending it your name; surname and astronomical care- after its
biological parents hadn’t the courage to accept it for being a girl,

For every bit of happiness that you spontaneously triggered amidst a
pall of robotically commercial gloom- by being just as how the Creator
had sent you upon the planet divine and unpretentiously natural,

For every ounce of manipulative currency that you burnt- not letting
anything besmirch your path of friendship and eternal love- as Love
was the most priceless gift from the Lord Divine,

For every bit of infallible determination that you so blissfully
transmitted- inspiring every bit of human impairment to become a
blessing to survive,

For every poetic verse that you evolved out of sheer and vapid
nothingness- to perpetuate drearily beleaguered bits of survival with
the scepter of magical newness,


For every bit of informality that you perpetuated wherever you went-
that relieved people of their unduly worries as in you they found a
friend for life – who would never ever betray them the slightest,


May the entire mortal world join you in your every philanthropic
conquest; then and together become a unified voice of love; a unified
spirit of existence which knew no religion; caste; color; creed or
tribe- but which only arose in uninhibited camaraderie to ignite the
lamp of humanity...

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