A Full Stop To Slavery - Iii Poem by Ramesh T A

Apartheid the racial segregation was simply
The perpetuation of the olden days’ slavery;
The working people should also think
Rather than feeling as destined galley slaves;
The days of Greek, Egyptians, Romans
And imperialism have gone away;
Instead capitalism, communism and socialism
Are vying with each other to capture the world
Forgetting the ever justifiable democracy,
The best means of existence for all men;
And so, slavery of one form or other
Is still prevailing all over the world!

It is not for the masters to be convinced
But the slaves to think to change the system;
India got freedom from foreign domination
By passive resistance following the Gandhian philosophy
Of non-violence rather than other thoughts of violence;
Convincing even the minority group with justice
In the democratic spirit was the method of Gandhi,
The sure means to achieve success whatever be the crisis!
Achievement in silence is much more effective
Than through speeches of violence;
Magnanimity of the meek man could not be
Mistaken for weakness by violent men;
But in the modern world the incorrigible dogmats
Have to be contained by their own methods;
And so intelligent efforts are needed much
To arrest the attention of rigid men to accept reason!

Survival of the fittest means not
The success of the stout but the shrewd!
Might is right not the right of the muscle
But the might of the mind!

By the nature of man slavery of any kind is unnatural,
Unholy, unacceptable and above all unjustifiable!
Even in slavery the nature of man is to do human things only;
So to overcome slavery of any form human means is best to follow!

The means to achieve the end varies
According to the mood from time to time
And accordingly a good means has to be
Adopted to achieve the end in a good manner.

Lord Buddha successfully experimented
The means of love to achieve the end desirable by all;
Six hundred years after Lord Jesus followed
The same means to achieve the salvation for mankind;
And in our century Mahatma Gandhi also practised
The same means to achieve the independence of India.
More than the success for them all
Following the good means to achieve
The good end is more important.
Why can’t now also people think
Of experimenting new means
To put an end to slavery?
Surely the end of slavery can be achieved
If new means suitable to the time is adopted.