a child is born free of mind <br />but is hardened into thought <br />and by the time one dies <br />most are fixed and screwed into <br />worlds of their making, <br />heavens of their fantasies: <br />so one thinks one’s an Indian, one a Chinese <br />or an American or British or Swedish <br />or French or Russian or German; <br />or one thinks one is a Christian or Muslim <br />or Jew or Hindu or Sikh or Catholic <br />or Doaist or Buddhist or Marxist or Communist <br />or even for that matter, an atheist… <br />…or whatever you will… <br />one finds a badge to pin proudly to one’s chest <br />and each identity becomes so strong <br />it becomes so real <br />it all comes into the question of right and wrong <br />of evil and good <br />and it falls into loud declamations <br />and my tribe is good, your tribe is evil <br />my brand is holy, your brand unholy… <br />and so it goes, <br />with all sorts of justifications <br />that beat sense out of all loyal adherents… <br />…and it squeezes humanity out of the human… <br />ah, and, yes, <br />the energy goes on into the afterlife <br />as Christians go into a Christian Heaven <br />and Hindus and Buddhists into various Lokas <br />and Muslims in their own Paradise <br />and so it goes on, <br />this Human Tragi-Comedy, <br />yes, yes, certainly – all created by the Almighty <br />who was created by your mind’s poverty <br />so that <br />a child is born free of mind <br />but is hardened into thought <br />and by the time one dies <br />most are fixed and screwed into <br />worlds of their making, <br />heavens of their fantasies<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-child-is-born-free-of-mind/
