NAME: SOMDATTA MITRA
PEN NAME: DAFFODILS
COUNTRY: INDIA 🇮🇳
TITLE: HUMANITY
The million smiles raised their hands with a loud cheer ,
To embrace the divine spirit whom they call MOTHER dear.
From the streets of Kolkata or from the wretched conditions in the slums ,
Missionaries of Charities and Mother House sheltered those innocent souls.
While walking past the footpaths when she witnessed ,
The poor were hungry and could not avail a day’s meal.
She rescued them and gifted them,
A cheerful and peaceful life and a lodging.
She illuminated lives of those orphans ,
Who were thrown in the dustbin or were lying in the streets bare as a new born.
Her vivacity knew no boundaries ,
She embraced abandoned and homeless children;
And so many women as a lady who idolized humanity.
She uplifted their spirits to work and become self – dependent ,
She enlightened each homeless child with a hope and desire.
To the weak , homeless and the destitute ,
She was the beacon who raised the hope to their desperate existance.
She was a living saint without a doubt ,
Made a massive impact on many people’s lives.
Crossing innumerable barriers she emerged victorious,
Caring for the sick , poor and disadvantaged.
In a challenge to the world she desperately broke boundaries ,
And taught us that humanity is the essence ;
Of a meaningful and most chetished life in its doctrine.
Love and spread peace with open arms to adhere to humanity above all,
Mother Teresa was a lady with the lamp like the nightangale.
Of an Albanian descent and brought up in Macedonia ,
She founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata ,
For the blind and the old she encamped them in seperate chambers.
She touched millions of lives with a healing hand,
And was extremely compassionate to enlighten the unloved, uncared and the crippled.
Agnes Gonhxa Bojaxhiu announced,
Her calling for a religious life as a nun.
Involving herself with Jesuit missionaries she gained a purpose to live a life of nobility.
Her first vows at Darjeeling Loreto house,
Earned her the name Teresa while she worked in ST. MARTIN School , Calcutta.
Associating herself with the Loreto Sisters,
Her initial life was engaged in serving to the soldiers;
Of the first world war and the Bengal famines.
The novel peace prize winner witnessed a severe setback where hungry children were her only concern.
Based on charity and empathy ,
She restored lives of the homeless and the unwanted.
Dressed in a white and blue bordered saree ,
She blossomed each flower who sat on her lap.
Humanity was the utmost cry during the Bengal famines ,
She strived hard to uplift the hungry children.
Love and compassion was her only strength ,
As she enlivened millions of lives,
Who were deprived of love , care and were malnourished.
To the whole she was THE MOTHER ,
That one word which seeks a comfortable lap for comfort.
And a right to embrace where there is no hesitation to share love in abundance.
She was THE MOTHER of the whole world.
To enthuse the spirits as a peace lover to move forward in life.
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