GUILT

Guilty is the mind that has not accepted what your heart has.

Guilty is that mind which looks over a 1000 possibilities knowing that the first one has already happened,

Guilty is the mind for dreaming of the perfect world all alone

Each time I pick up those dirty plates I see the leftovers 

the guilt fills me as I remember the boy begging by the hotel

The young girl whose cloths hung over her fragile skeleton

The baby on her back crying in hunger.

Each time I see the garbage hills and land fills

I'm engulfed in guilt

The guilt of ignoring that sight and not doing anything about it

The guilt of ignoring in spite of the knowledge that its going to affect my planet , my generation

Each time I see water leaking out off an unfixed tap 

I'm immersed in guilt as

I can feel the scorching sun burning my skin

I can imagine what would be left of the ozone if we continue global warming at this rate

Each time I come across an article on a religious conflict  

I'm filled with guilt

For what is freedom in a secular country without the space to carry out ones religious activities

Each time I see Indians fleeing to foreign lands lured by money 

Guilt fills me 

For their blindness to the many opportunities in their mother land,

It has poured oil to the burning fire in me to work towards India becoming a Developed country.

Each time I walk out into the noisy city 

I feel guilty

The birds have been stripped of their habitat only for us to live with this constant buzz 

An irritation we have created and now we ourselves want to flee from it. 

- Bharathi Senthilkumar

Every time I feel gratitude for each day I also feel the guilt of following my ambitions only, while ignoring the fact that this world needs its balance between nature and us and our problems for me to make my dream the reality. This is one of my starting steps to spread the awareness as I know we all need to work together for the future of earth!!