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Napoleon or Gandhi?
by Lakshmi Raj Sharma → (All Poetry by Lakshmi Raj Sharma)
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Getting and giving in today's world

 Napoleon or Gandhi?

Getting and giving, is great but not always.
There are shades of grey, we are proving ourselves,
Testing our limits like Raskolnikov or Tamburlaine even.
‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends’ said Hamlet.
Does what I give or get follow my action?
Give to the one who responds not to unthinking blonds.
Give to a beggar who blesses not to one who looks back to curse.
Get from her who never grudges or him who never judges.
‘Everything is nothing’, said Lear’s Fool, then why bother?
Giving can be all a selfish affair. When Austen said, ‘It is a truth
Universally acknowledged’, that a man with a ‘good fortune must be 
In want of a wife’, she meant the opposite:
A woman in possession of five daughters is on the lookout for
Good husbands. While a Man gives, a Woman takes
And when the scene is reversed one goes through that witchly
Experience that changed Macbeth to jelly. Giving and getting
Must be left to God; man ruins all he takes firmly into his hands.
Would Napoleon win or Gandhi if they had a duel?


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 Reviews of "Napoleon or Gandhi?"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 7, 2014
To give or not to give, that is the question you have raised so well with literary references throughout.

I wouldn't give an inch. Stubborn bastard! ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on July 7, 2014
Against the backdrop of history...
Who rises in wisdom, honor, and purpose?
The little man with calloused feet.

Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on July 7, 2014

Gandhi, hands down

well done

Reviewed by Elisabeth Barstowe
Reviewed on July 6, 2014
Wise words.


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