Precious and Beautiful Gifts

Green, gargantuan park Scattered everywhere the tiny tots PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART With their funny antics, woolly babbling, scuff-lings And in ecstatic bliss they play together forming one large circle Where prevails no differentiation Of colour, caste, class, religion The tiny tots are the PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART Who fear neither fire nor water Pain or pleasure Bondage or separation Everything appears alike To the mystic playgroups Who enhances beauty to the park And makes it like a praiseworthy piano Adorable and adored Loved by one and all For their foolish wisdom And snow white pristine innocence PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART In multifarious garbs Some can jump, run, walk Scribble, read, write Colour, sketch, dance, sing Play with barbies, balls, cars Can lap chocolates,cakes ice-creams BUT................................................... Many PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART Dared not even open their eyes, ears, mouths Are fettered with myriad manacles Their petulant childhoods are dismembered Can't they too wish, aspire, dream? Like the no blesse oblige? Why do humans itself deprive the joys? OF THE PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART? Make them work in hotels and factories LET THE PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART Realise their golden reign Of care, concern, love, benevolence They do deserve like the other children LIVE AND LET LIVE And merry the world around With gay children in multitudes. Note: I believe that THE PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS OF THE HEART ARE CHILDREN GOD'S GREATEST GIFT.Many couples are childless today. So children are our joys and happiness. Children of today are our youth and future tomorrow. But there are teeming children whose childhood are nipped in the bud and are engaged in child labour. Let's not make children work and better the world !