Of nothing else

Taliban! For a long time

It had the better of me this word,

I could only think of terror and crime

When it appeared in my world;

Of it, the more I heard and saw

It costumed as the truth, without any flaw

It played its role on stage

For years consumed horror and bloodshed

Until I went to the dais, without a borrowed mirror

And looked at the word I caused pain, freed it from my obstinate cage

I will change its mask; I will change its dress

I will paint it afresh with a complete new face

Some will witness in it for sure some sense

The word now speaks to me of tolerance

Of acceptance, love, intelligence

Of brotherhood, affluence and newness

Of nothing else, of nothing else

I have changed it completely

And with it will change my reality

O what a beautiful word this is

It holds everything I need

How did I overlook, how did I miss

The word is kind indeed.

Words have a deep impact on our thoughts. In fact, we are nothing but words! Thoughts give rise to feelings, feelings to actions, actions to habits. Habits make our personality which in turn becomes our destiny. In view of this, the poem tries to change our destiny by changing the thought of a particular word that's troubling our world.

This poem is dedicated to those who have taught me how thoughts create our own destiny

The Brahmakumaris
Deepak Chopra
Wayne Dyer
Osho
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Eckhart Tolle
Oprah Winfrey
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