You say we're backward
One day your horizon will grow
You're just bluffing
How far back should I show?

The Beatles realized:
"Money Can't Buy Me Love"
So they found Maharishi
And learned to meditate
George Harrison became a Hindu
And Ravi Shankar his mentor
Peter Gabriel promoted musicians
Like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Thru "The Last Temptation of Christ"

They say Jesus spent a few years in India
Are the Himalyas closer to Heaven?
People still go there for higher learning
And to sit under wise Bodhi trees
To reach enlightenment in India
Like Buddha
Half K Before Christ

Gandhi empowered the natives
To fire the queen of England
His ideas of non-violence
Cultivated Martin Luther King
To reclaim Human Rights

But the fuel runs out
From time to time
So the Colonizers return
Thru TV and business
To enslave in English
To plunder the wealth
Of Civilization

Greed and hunger have their domains
Politicians and zealots feed the wars
But in the wildest places
The spiritual fire burns bright
Still in India today
 

Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

4-3-99