PREFACE
Value Systems exist in different forms such as social values, organizational values, human values & personal values. Often these are defined in Citizen’s Charters, Code of Conduct and as Leadership Attributes. All forms of value systems are largely based on ethics, morality and virtues. Over the years, values have been corrupted by over-ambition. This trend needs to be arrested.
I have attempted, in the form of a poem below, an expression of my observations & beliefs. It calls for an introspection (PEEP WITHIN) to understand what has gone wrong.
Periodic self analysis by all and an exemplary conduct by Leaders at all levels in the society is, perhaps, the only antidote to stop further decay & decline in value systems.
PEEP WITHIN
| When value systems change And morals too decline; When demoniac forces grow To dominate the mind. |
| When materialistic urges build up To squeeze the trust of time; And perversions invade the intellect Of unbridled minds. |
| When principles get replaced By conveniences undefined; And Hypocrisy infiltrates To make the learned blind. |
| When wisdom sheds its grace And virtue gets maligned; When faith in systems degenerates And rogues operate from behind. |
| When everyone looks crazy, And claims he has no time; To conscience or conscientiousness He doesn’t want to bind. |
| And still he wants to climb the ladder Leaving everyone behind; Each failure shakes his pride No success makes him kind. |
| Who can make him taste the truth Whose tongue is not refined ? An attempt for a ‘PEEP WITHIN’ May tell him he is blind. |
| Each one of us needs to alter Our attitudes I find; The horrid, clumsy thoughts we have Churn out polluted minds. |
| Values such as Love, Truth and Duty, Do not wither with time; One has to earn the Grace of God And keep them as sublime. |
| His Grace is there, the conscience knows, For loving hearts and humble minds; For ego-less and devoted ones, Who glide over the tides of time. |
Comments by the readers on this article may help me to refine my perceptions.
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You are welcome, Rita, to share my poem on the face book. The purpose surely is to encourage introspection.
may i share this on facebook?
A great poem Sir, which is indeed need of the society.
Whenever, I come across bad situations, I just recite the following lines:
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day
We’ll walk hand in hand some day
We are not afraid
We are not alone
The whole wide world around some day
We shall overcome some day