A Poem on “Service to Man is Service to God”

I will serve, serve the people in need,

without expecting a deed,
I will serve the people instead,
wasting my time in wonderful and extravagant deeds,
I will serve the people instead the people call him almighty,
due his presence for the people in need,uttering the meaning of
god not in books,
not in the metallic frames, not in the closed compounds,
but in the open hearts made of love and dignity,
but in the open nature made of the,
pure sense of ethnicity and belief,
the almighty who we cherish, respect, believe,
is who? The idols made of soil?, the metallic shape?,
but maybe our innerself, list the sound that guides you,
that believes in you, helps you, maybe the God is this
voice, from the melancholy which will reflect us, which heads us
far forward, which protects us is maybe it,
being a clear heart with concern,
kindness, love is maybe better than the heart with
jealousy, pride, prejudice and cruelty,
lending help is maybe better than letting others suffer
apart, lending help to others means lending help
to myself, that satisfaction maybe the final definite emotion
which forever resides in me........

By Aishani Vallabhaneni
Class: 9A
Roll no: 13
School: Meridian school for boys and girls, banjara hills