Donate

I wrote this poem during my days at Make a Difference, India’s second-largest youth network dedicated to teaching and empowering orphan kids. When I saw them for the first time, They gave me an energy unknown, For that energy so pious, I Donate.

When I reach there in all euphoria, And they cling onto me with all their might, For that love unspeakable, I Donate.

The day when I taught him that trick in Math, His eyes shone, he got the trick at once, And said, “I will tell this trick to whoever I meet”

For this knowledge so contagious, I Donate. When I teach them the Nouns and the Pronouns, And they repeat it exactly as I do, Our souls unite in that moment of magic, And all disparity dies at once, For that boundless beauty of oneness, I Donate.

When I am with them, Am the closest to my heart then, They share their thoughts and desires in all innocence, And lend to my eyes the dreams in their eyes, For their dreams are now mine, I Donate.

For when they run into me, like the rays in the flower, And turn me into a dutybound sunflower, For those magicians turning my time into the zenith hour, I Donate. I Donate.