Association, You Keep

Association, You Keep

P K Routray

Water from a rain drop

falling on a man’s palm top

hygienic it is to drink by a man

but the same drop to drink we ban

when falls it on roof top gutters

where dirt pollutants it gathers.

Rain drops on a lotus leaf role like pearls

while reflecting the sun shine each drop sparkles

but the same rain drop falling on its water bed

where the lotus plant is born  and its leaves are spread

in its contaminated water pool the drop loses its purity

assuming the pond water’s unclean unhygienic property.

Water falling on a hot bed turns to vanishing vapor

on ice bed it turns solid with freezing temperature

The same drop of water alters its property because of its association

Similar is a man whose character on the society, he keeps, depends upon.