Heart-Song Of Mattie Stepanek* Poem by Tushar Ray

Listen to this amazing child prodigy
This 12-year old, Mattie
Fighting the muscular Dystrophy
Sitting on a wheel chair
With a gleaming funny smile
As an embodied pure-consciousness

"Just listen to your heart
Instead of your head", he said
In sharing his vision in
The Larry King Live in CNN
And "Each of us must be
Committed to peace" he added
Wanting it bad enough
To brood over all the time
"Only then Peace will succeed
In our heart in the end
To render us blissfully blessed
In our lovely planet"

This was his timely message
For the ailing mankind
In our edgy world of today
And further added
"This is a high time to begin
A new paradigm
For a worldwide peace
And mind-body harmony
Where we must forgo
The powers of all brutal kind
Embracing Love and wisdom
To conquer a man's heart

Listen to his published book
"Heart Songs" of Mattie Stepanek
Giving off an aroma of love
With an universal vision
Echoing from his own heart
In enchanting words
Like a sweet Vedic Hymn
"Ye Children of immortal soul"
It rumbles through the veins
Of love-thirsty humanity
As he invites them to his vision
Of an all-embracing-unity

In spite of suffering
From such a dreadful disease
Mattie was so sure of him
As an immortal blissful Soul that
He forever lived in deep-harmony
Free from all anxiety
As we saw him in Larry King Live
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*Mattie Stepanek died at the age of 14. This poem was dedicated on 6/26/2004 to this child-poet

"In life you embodied a spirit of love and dignity
In death you have become a spirit of Solidarity"