A Lesson by Illustration

A Lesson by Illustration

P K Routray

Effect of association

has its true illustration

by fallen droplets of rain,

judging the value they gain

If a drop falls on palm of a man

drink it a man can.

Falls if it on a trough

its quality goes off.

Unfit it becomes for consumption

because of its contamination.

Falls if it in surface, extreme hot

perishes it to vapor on the spot.

On frozen ice if it falls

solidifies it to make field fit for base balls.

If it falls on leaf of a lotus

with sunshine it dazzles like pearls.

It may turn to a pearl falling on oysters

with change in association its character alters.

Falls if it on the earth surface on torrent

floods the stream river and turn violent.

Water drop does not alter its character

But associates can make it sweet or violent, solid or vapor.

A man must learn a lesson from a droplet of water

Association, he should choose to divinize his character.