One who devoids himself from worldly life <br />Always engaged in the pursuit of noble divine <br />By changing the curtain of reality to the heaven <br />Eager to wash away all the memories of grief <br />Makes you smile by taking you away for a brief <br />Goes away as a speedy flash unattached, is a Monk <br /> <br />The one who makes the weeping child smile <br />By supporting its balanced growth when it is fragile <br />Initiates the child to live with the spirits of Divine <br />But always binds the child with both- earth and heaven <br />Smiles with the child, cries with the child and always dearer <br />Closer, Trust-worthy, ever devoted to stand as a shade attached is Mother!<br /><br />Rekha Mandagere<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/monk-and-mother/
