What makes a man <br />A mahatma <br />The noble soul <br />You showed <br />By your discipline <br />And your actions. <br /> <br />Your belief <br />In freedom of man <br />Your peaceful fight <br />For equal rights <br />Spread across <br />Continents wide apart. <br /> <br />Silently you led <br />People of all races <br />Nonviolence you insisted <br />Communicating to the masses <br />The power of your call <br />For total self-reliance <br />'Make cloth you wear' <br />'Make salt you need' <br />Resounded thru decades <br />Made oppressors to yield. <br /> <br />You strictly practiced <br />Whatever you preached <br />Your insistence on truth <br />And passive resistance <br />Known as satyagraha <br />Is well known all over. <br /> <br />Dear Bapu <br />We adore you <br />You created <br />Many great leaders <br />And many more stalwarts <br />Followed your path <br />To spread freedom <br />Across this world.<br /><br />Tirupathi Chandrupatla<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mahatma-gandhi-we-love/
